Is there any easy way to measure the ESR (equivalent series resistence) of a given capacitor? By the way, this IS a PIC related question! Regards, Octavio -- ======================================================== Octavio Nogueira e-mail: nogueira@mandic.com.br homepage: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/tato voice/fax: +55 11 240-6474 "ProPic" The first Production PIC Programmer running in Windows and under US$ 20.00. ========================================================