It WORKS

hello today was a rather good result as I got the project to work sucsfully, the pic was programmed and it worked fine, then instead of lighting up LEDs the code was written so that it would send 1s to the three lines from the pic board. Then alterd the VB code so that it talked to COM3 which worked and now when you press the buttons for go left or go right the dish motor moves. Also added a stop button that also makes use of the BRAKE facility form the chip bringing the motor to a stop, next need to get the dish talking back via the reed switch and mesaure how far the dish can travel.

good progress

hello this is to say that I have successfully built a working prototype board, when plugged up got the motor to work and the chip handled the current and voltage fine next stage is get the chip working with James's board which is getting to be a nightmare, I used to keep my project in the locker at the back of the class room now its gone and I cant get the code to work any more, how ever once this works that is almost it, however that next thing to think about is how do I get comms back from the dish counting the open and closed signals from the reed switch???

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today i used my time to build the circuit agreed by ging now its built gotta test it, getting pissed of with this whole project.