At 12:52 PM 7/7/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm working on my PIC "Power Manager" which is set up much like the circuit
>shown in AN582, with a fast main crystal between OSC1 and OSC2, and then
>the watch crystal between T1OSI and T1OSO.  This is a pretty neat thing
>that the PIC can do - allowing a sleeping PIC to sleep, but continue to
>keep time via the Timer1 and the 32KHz crystal.  I have much of my firmware
>done.  The problem is - I can't get the 32KHz crystal to oscillate reliably.
>My boards don't come in for another week, so, I'm prototyping on a vector
>board.


Its probably not the problem with a vector board prototype, but I have had
trouble with board contamination with PICs with low frequency crystals.  The
problem was solved by carefully cleaning the area around the crystal with
alcohol.

Good luck!
- Gary

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