Re: 12 LED resistance circuit help

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:03:47 GMT, "Anthony Fremont"
<spam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>"John Fields" <jfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 02:07:01 GMT, "Anthony Fremont"
>> <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> >Given the circuit he chose to build, I'm not surprised that it
>doesn't
>> >work. I would agree that it's "typical" of a good many newbie posts
>> >regardless of whether they're using a PIC. At any rate, his problem
>has
>> >nothing to do with a PIC chip, yet.
>>
>> ---
>> To whom and to what are you referring, specifically?
>
>Odd how that is hard to tell now that you've snipped away the context.
>Hmm. :-/

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Snipped away context, my ass. You're the one going around reading
stuff in one thread, commenting on it in another, and expecting
everyone to know what you're talking about.
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>If you must know, we were talking about another thread. The OP of that
>thread built a cheesy programmer circuit and substituted the one and
>only IC that it contains with a different number _and_ family.
>Therefore, it's really not too surprising that he can't get it to work.
>
>The second sentence (as delineated by a capital letter and a period)
>refers to the other thread. The OP posted no useful information in his
>post.

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Perhaps he's emulating _your_ style...
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>It was, therefore, typical of many newbie posts in that it went
>something like, "I built xxxx and it doesn't work, why?" You know.
>
>The final sentence points out that the OP didn't have a PIC problem yet,
>just a programmer problem since it couldn't be detected by the
>programming software. This was, in fact, going to be the least of his
>problems since he'd need some way to put his new PIC chips into LVP mode
>before being able to program them.


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John Fields
Professional Circuit Designer
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