AAUGH!! I cant turn a LED on without HIGH!

Armored Cars

I have been studying the PBASIC help guide but I cant get any of these to work to turn a LED on.

OUT13=1
PIN13=1
DIR13=1

The only thing that works is
HIGH 13

Please help this is frusterating.

steve_b

What version of Stamp/Pbasic are you using?

Might try p13=1.

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Using HIGH 13 is the same as:

DIR13 = 1 
OUT13 = 1

You can see that HIGH is a bit more convenient as it makes the pin an output (DIR13 = 1), then sets the output driver high (OUT13 = 1). You need both of these actions to get the LED to light.

If you name the LED with the PIN definition, you can do this:

LED PIN 13 

Reset: 
  OUTPUT LED 

Main: 
  LED = 1 
  PAUSE 1000 
  LED = 0 
  PAUSE 1000 
  GOTO Main

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Jon Williams
Applications Engineer, Parallax
Dallas Office

Armored Cars

I found the mistake. In the help file under INPUT it says

Explanation
There are several ways to make a pin an input. When the BASIC Stamp is reset, all of the pins are inputs. Commands that rely on output pins, like PULSIN and SERIN, automatically change the specified pin to input. Writing 0s to particular bits of the variable Dirs makes the corresponding pins outputs. And then there’s the INPUT command.

I was writing 0s instead of 1s.