At 05:35 PM 12/28/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Could someone with experience please give me a ballpark figure for a series
>resistor for using a watch crystal (32.768kHz) with a PIC?  I'm not sure how
>much drive level these things can take but two of them have bit the dust
>already so appearantly it isn't ok to use them without a series resistor.
>

Maybe make sure you are in LP mode?


I've used them (albeit not for too long) and didn't have any problems....

-Erik Reikes

>If it makes any difference I am using them with the Timer1 oscillator on a
>PIC16C73.
>
>TIA,
>
>Ken