Myke said: >Personally, I would keep in the 1 K to 10 K range because anything greater >than that could have problems with the input capacitance of the pins (the RC >time constant would grow so large as to affect the responsiveness of the >circuit). Anything less than this will start having some serious current >(power) requirements. > > >I'm passing these comments out to the PICList. Does anybody else have >anything else to add? > Another good reason for keeping pullup/down resistors low is to reduce the probability that noise/glitches/interference can develop enough voltage across them to turn a one into a zero or vice versa. It only has to happen for a few nanoseconds. . . Reg Neale