Hi guys,

I am back with a nice simple project. At least it looked like that. :-)

I made a circuit to control a LED Stripe which needs 12V to light up. I realised it on my breadboard with the nerdkit. It works great. The LED stripe turns on for 6 seconds and turns off for 6 seconds. Repeating in a loop.

So I thought it would be nice to bring this on a pcb. I want to control 4 LED Stripes with it and 1 door opener.

But when I put the MCU from the working curcuit of the breadboard into the circuit of the new pcb it won't work. The led stripe is always turned on. It never turns off.

I can't find the mistake. But I am sure there has to be one, because it don't work.

Maybe someone has an idea or input to help me getting forward it this project.

  int main() {

      // LED as output
  DDRD |= (1<<PD6);

  // loop keeps looking forever
  while(1) {
    // turn on LED
    PORTD |= (1<<PD6);

    delay_ms(6000);

    // turn off LED
    PORTD &= ~(1<<PD6);

    delay_ms(6000);
  }

  return 0;
}

PCB UP:

PCB BOTTOM:

PCB Eagle Board:

PCB Eagle Schematic:

Breadboard Circuit:

Maybe you need the 22pf capacitors on the crystal as called for in the spec. The breadboard has enough capacitance in the contact strips for the ocillator to work but on a PCB there is no built-in capacitance.

Also, you don't need all those diodes for driving led's, they are only needed for inductive loads.

Hi Noter,

i think that could be the key.

I forgot that the capacitance is different.

I will add the capacitors and give you a feedback.

Thanks for your help.