LCD interfering with Keypad circuit
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LCD interfering with Keypad circuit
My LCD seems to be causing interference with my keypad circuit that is hooked up to the same ardunio mega2560. The key pad is connected to D-22 through D-29 and our GND. Our LCD 16-pin Blue (no back-light) is connected to 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 5V and 2 GNDs. Both of the circuits work individually. however when we combine them they do not work. I have tried adding a BFC of 4700uF and 16V but that still does not change the weird errors we get in our program for the keypad. We know the same code works for the keypad alone so we know something with the code is not wrong. Any advise for getting rid of the interference?
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Re: LCD interfering with Keypad circuit
Post your code and a photo of your hardware and we'll take a look.
It's both possible and common for two chunks of code that work independently to reveal problems when you put them together. Integration testing is a reliable source of obscure bugs.
It's both possible and common for two chunks of code that work independently to reveal problems when you put them together. Integration testing is a reliable source of obscure bugs.
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Re: LCD interfering with Keypad circuit
Attached is a zip file with the LabVIEW files for the programs individually and then one with them combined. As well, it is a bad picture but I have added two pictures of the hardware as well. Basically the wires are connected to terminal blocks that are connected to the arduino. Pin D_22 - D-29 are the pins 1-8 of the key pad. And the LCD pins are connected to the arduino as follows (LCD pin on left and ardunio pin on right)
1 GND and capacitor
2 5V and capacitor
3 empty
4 pin 12
5 GND
6 pin 11
7 empty
8 empty
9 empty
10 empty
11 pin 5
12 pin 4
13 pin 3
14 pin 2
15 empty
16 empty
1 GND and capacitor
2 5V and capacitor
3 empty
4 pin 12
5 GND
6 pin 11
7 empty
8 empty
9 empty
10 empty
11 pin 5
12 pin 4
13 pin 3
14 pin 2
15 empty
16 empty
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- LCD and KEY pad.7z
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Re: LCD interfering with Keypad circuit
I'm afraid we don't have any in-house experience with LabView. It's common in professional labs, but is priced a bit above the average DIYer's range. As a side note, I don't have any compression utilities that will handle a .7z file.. all I got was a manual infinite loop of .7z unpacking to .cpgz, which in turn unpacked to .7z.
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