I'm usually preplexed by electronics questions, but I have a suggestion.  I 
came across an LM317L.  The output current is 100mA.  It's in an SO8 package. 
 Could this work? 

Just a suggestion,

Tim H.


In a message dated 6/25/99 5:08:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
paulb@midcoast.com.au writes:

> It's been mentioned that the 78L05 has a 5 mA excitation current
>  leaking out the reference terminal, which is likely a *lot* more than
>  the average PIC consumption.  For an LM317, this is more like 50 to 100
>  ľA though you generally need to "swamp" this in a resistive divider
>  drawing say, 500 ľA.  These are dirt common devices.