A few monthes ago i posted about a giant score board that i'm making. So i finished the schematics and was hoping you could check it out, so that i wont be dissapointed when it doenst work!
It's made so you can connect a 10 wire ribbon cable to a series of led strips (330ma 12v each) making a giant 7-segment display.
Can you tell me why i need a pull down resisitor? and what value should it be? I've let someone make a pcb, and it looks perfect!
Also, what capacitor needs to be on the vcc of the shift register?
0.1uF on the VCC pins.
Pulldown resistor - 10K is fine. Keeps the MOSFETs while the sketch comes out of bootloader and takes control of the IO pins bring them low prior to any data writing, i.e.
pinMode(pinX);
digitalWrite(pinX, LOW);