>My "touch circuit" is a piece of grounded wire :)). The pic somehow detects >the touch (I programmed it in PicBasicPro with a simple rctime command that >measures a change) which works fine - except that I cant independently >reproduce it in another PIC at the same time. So I guess my question is - >is there a way to give each pic its own ground? I'm using a standard wall >wart 9 volt adapter with no real earth pin. I have humble answer to your problem, but I am afraid it contains two transistors and one resistor for each detector. I'm tryly sorry for the attachment, I know many of the PICsters don't aprove of it, but sending the picture of the circuit is the only way I see to give away this information. Hope it is of any help, and PLEASE give me feedback if I have completely screwed this one up, misunderstood something and so. :-) Please be indulgent, I am only a student yet... :-)) Stig =================================================== Stig Brautaset - sbrautas@c2i.net - http://home.c2i.net/sbrautas =================================================== Drive carefully; 90% of the people in the world are caused by accidents.