At 2:17 PM 7/21/97, Scott Walsh wrote:
>     Guys,
>
>     When having problems with crystals, the thing you must check is the
>     ESR rating of the crystal.
>
>     I havnt followed the thread of this argument closely and cant remeber
>     what speed your XTAl is, but in general, XTAL's are much harder to get
>     going than Resonators. The equivalent series resistance is about 30
>     for XTALs at 5MHz and 150 for resonators at 5MHz. The choice of
>     capacitors is dependant on this ESR value.

This thread was originally launched by a message from me. I'm using a
ceramic resonator with builtin 30pf capacitors.  Am I naive to think that
the people who manufacture the resonators supply appropriate sized caps?