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Check out the piclist at:<p> http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist/index.htm <p>There's a ton of usefull info there. Also a quick search on Google should bring up about 3 or 4 million relevant hits, but hopefully you already tried that.<p>Also, Programming and Customizing PIC Microcontrollers by My...

I'm new to this so hence my question:<p>What would putting a diode across there do? What could possibly happen without it?

DISCLAIMER: OK, I'm still a novice so don't take what I say as gospel.<p>First, do a Google search and read up on stepper motors. Basically, there are several coils in the stepper. When one is energized the stepper turns toward it. To make it spin, you energize the coils in order, one after the othe...

Well, actually I am using a UPS and that's the problem. The UPS's I have occasionally fail in such a manner that they no longer supply power to the connected gear. What I'm wanting to achieve, essentially, is a device that will allow me to bypass the UPS when it has failed (but when the wall outlet ...

I want to be able to connect 1 AC receptacle to 2 seperate AC outlets (preferably with out destroying the connected equipment or killing myself).<p>Why? Well, I've got 2 seperate sources of AC and I need to be able to keep a computer running if one or the other goes down. So, I need something that w...