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Hello!

I have an Atmega328P standalone. I've uploaded a sketch, and it functions perfect. The problem is when I connect a LED to some pins (eg. PD6, PD7..) the LED narrowly lights. I've measured the drop voltage on the LED+resist. an it has almost 2 V.
Why just some pins does this?
Could anyone explain how could I avoid this? The transistor is the only solution?

Thank you!

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Do you have resistors in series with the LEDs?

[Reply #2 on:]

Did you remember to do a pinMode command on the pins you wired the led/resistors to?

Lefty

[Reply #3 on:]

I've uploaded a sketch, and it functions perfect.

May we see it? And your wiring?

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Yes, I have a resistor.
There is nothing wrong with the wiring or with the sketch. Without a load, I have 5V between the pin and GND. When I conect the LED (with the resistor) the drop voltage on the load is, as I said, about 2V.

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There is nothing wrong with the wiring or with the sketch.

Ah, if I had a dollar for every time I heard that ...

So no sketch? No wiring?

The transistor is the only solution?

The solution is to answer our questions.

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Ah, if I had a dollar for every time I heard that ...
(...)

 

Ok, here is the sketch:

Code:

#include <Wire.h>
byte c;
void setup()
{
  Wire.begin(4);                // join i2c bus with address #4
  Wire.onReceive(receiveEvent); // register event
  digitalWrite (6, HIGH);
  delay(3000);
  digitalWrite (6, LOW);
}

void loop()
{
  if (c==1)
  {
    digitalWrite (6, HIGH);
  }
  if (c==0)
  {
    digitalWrite (6, LOW);
  }
  delay(100);
}

void receiveEvent(int howMany)
{
  
  c = Wire.read();
    
  }

And this is the wiring; the yellow wire is the pin 6 from the sketch.


Thank you!

Moderator edit: [code] ... [/code] tags added. (Nick Gammon)

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void setup()
{
  Wire.begin(4);                // join i2c bus with address #4
  Wire.onReceive(receiveEvent); // register event
  pinMode( 6, OUTPUT );
  digitalWrite (6, HIGH);
  delay(3000);
  digitalWrite (6, LOW);
}

[Reply #8 on:]

There is nothing wrong with the wiring or with the sketch.

Where do you set the pin to output?

[Reply #9 on:]

Did you remember to do a pinMode command on the pins you wired the led/resistors to?

Lefty knew.

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He always does.   

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So...  If you DON'T set the pin as an OUTPUT, writing a HIGH with digitalWrite() enables  the internal "weak pullup", which is a resistor of value about 20k to +5V.  This allows enough current to flow out the pin to tell a voltmeter that there is 5V there, and enough for a modern LED to light very dimly, but not enough to get the current you are expecting.  Effectively, you get the equivalent of a 20k+R current-limiting resistor to the voltage source, instead of just R.

Nice job on the picture and code posting, BTW.  A lot of the time when people are "sure" that their code/circuit is correct, that info NEVER shows up (which is why the responders are a little ... assertive about asking.)  Here, we got a good picture and the code quite quickly (and it did indeed make the problem obvious.)

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I didn't saw! INCREDIBLE!!!!! And you realize that I've searched a lot before open a new topic!
THANK YOU SIR!

 

@Westfw:
Yes, I realized what happed when I saw that I forgot to declare the type of pin.
About the photo, the code... I've posted here because I didn't found any solution myself. So it's my interest to show as more explicit as I can the problem that I have. Isn't it?


_{PS This topic can be deleted because it didn't serve for something and I have the "problem" (that was a shame) solved.}