On Sunday 11 January 2009 19:33:10 Kustaa Nyholm wrote: > Thanks Vaclav, > > silly me, the pin was shorted. > > I violated the three laws of development work: > > Assume nothing, Believe nothing, Check everything, or ABC for short! > > Because the PCB was unpopulated except for the PIC and XTAL and > bypasses, > I assumed that there would be no shorts and failed to check it and > believed > that this was a sw issue (being a programmer!). > > There was actually a very very tiny copper blop between a trace and > gnd. > I barely saw it, but scrapring with a knife tip removed the short. > > Sorry for the wasted band width and thanks to Fabien also. > > br Kusti > <snip>
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