Hi -- Usually when I post places nowadays, I use the nick "joshua", appending underscores as necessary... evidently this one is from ages ago ;) With regards to actual heat -- I agree that the "touch test" would be fine for some packages, but this package isn't particularly desig...

Hi all -- I have an LK204-25 that's a few years old (board revision 1.23), and I noticed that when I'm doing a lot of transfers to it via I2C, the PIC gets very hot. I would estimate that I update every 250msec. When I do, I reinitialize bar graphs (paranoia), write eight characters, then draw a bar...