Scott Dattalo wrote:

<SNIP all kinds of good capacitance stuff & good advice>

Since the L/C is going to be prone to drift, the PIC could save the last sample
and
look for too big a jump (up or down) as opposed to a hard-coded setpoint.  Thus
temperature changes, plate tectonics <VBG>, etc. would have little effect on the
detection of a bump.

Just my two pence...

Michael

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