Concerning my earlier post concerning instrumentation amps or differential ADCs, I feel I should mention after reading Dwayne's post I rethought my assumption that these signals are all loosely referenced to some theoretical "ground", your problem was just that there was excessive noise floating around on the power ground for the circuit that you didn't want messing up your readings or coupling back into the signals being sensed... If that isn't the case, pretty much everything I said is meaningless drivel and just ignore it... ND Holmes -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan D. Holmes maverick@drgw.net, ndholmes@iastate.edu 122 Shepard #3 Box 328 Gilbert, IA 50105 Iowa State University - EE http://www.drgw.net/~maverick PH: 515-663-9368 -------------------------------------------------------------------------