Thanks to everyone who responded to my inquire on PIC's lowest power scheme and the best timed method to wake PIC up from sleep mode. Advices were really exellent. I am going to try recalibrating of watchdog timer before powering PIC down. It will save some real estate (external timer or RTC) and hopefully some current. By the way, databook drawing for PIC16C63 shows that maximum current with WDT enabled is about 10uA (in 0-70C and 5V). Is it really so? Is it applicable to other PICs (like 16C556 I am going to use)? I have few other questions: 1. What is the difference between PIC16Cxxx and PIC16LCxxx? 2. Pins configuration in power down mode. My thought: - configure all pins as inputs (all peripherals are powered down also, so pins are floating); - turn on internal pull-up on port B; - pull pins on other ports down with 100K resistors. Is it correct? Anything else to do for cutting current down? Again thank you all for help. Gennady Palitsky Jefferson Audio Video Systems gennadyp@mainlink.net