Anthony Tekatch wrote:

> I've been having some difficulties with my PIC project taking about 5
> seconds to start up from a power up or a reset or wake from sleep.
>
> I have a 16C63-JW running on a 32KHz crystal (Epson C-001R32.768K-A) with
> 68pF capacitors and a series OSC2 resistor of 100Kohm. I am relying on the
> power on RESET timer to do the reset.
>
> I think that the slow wake up/reset is due to the 32KHz crystal driving
> but I ended up burning out crystals when I used lower series resistance
> like 1K or 0 ohms.
>
> It seems that if I put the unit to sleep then wake it up within one or two
> seconds that it will wake up much quicker (2 seconds wake up time instead
> of 5 seconds).
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

It sounds like you are using the the XT or HS oscillator
selection instead of LP (low power)

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