><< 190 milliamp-hours is 190,000 microamp-hours, so at 1 microamp they >should > give me 190,000 hours, or about 20 years, eh? >to short out this 10K with 100R to give enough running current. You will need >a tant capacitor on the power pins to retain sufficent charge to do the I would NEVER use a tantalum in a low power situation. I've always considered them to be high leakage devices - at least 1uA per uF. Jim