I found out why the 10k didn't work. This is being driven by pin 3 on the 
PIC (RA4) which is an open-drain output. I have a 10k pull-up on it. 
Reducing the base resistor to 10k loaded this down too much. When I reduce 
the pull-up to 2k, the 10k base resistor works.

On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 3:30:24 PM UTC-4, dr pepper wrote:
>
> Hi again,
>  
> Good to see the 100k improves things, leakage either is or contributing to 
> the isse then, maybe the base of Q9 is capacitvely coupled to something, I 
> dont know why the 10k messed things up, 10k isnt a low enough resistance to 
> upset the pic, if you pull too much current from the pic and force its 
> current limit into operation then you can have all kinds of issues with the 
> good old read modify write problem. Maybe something else odd is going on 
> there.
>  
>
>

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