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Re: Digital to Analog Converters

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Originally Posted by Abwehr View Post
If you are indeed doing this on the OI, keep in mind that you are limited to a MAXIMUM of 100mA from the 4 joystick ports combined, and these are the only legal power sources for your OI components (the Chicklet is the exception to this rule).

That's going to mean that whatever you design has to be very low power.
I thought it was 100mA per port! How much power does each individual joystick pull?

I am going to put an LCD on there without back lighting so it should only pull about 30mA and the PIC and MAX232 should pull about 20mA so I think it will work.

It will be sweet if it works though...