> Giles wrote:
>
> Hello all, I am once again back on the PicList.
> OK, I am looking at someone else's board.  I see a yellow 3 pin thing
> in place of the xtal.  It looks to me like the center pin is tied to
> ground and the other 2 are going to OSC1 & OSC2.
> I love to reduce part count and want to know what this is..  It looks
> like a tantalum cap with 3 pins and has 4.00u on it, my guess is it is
> 4.0Mhz.
> Is it RC? or Xtal with caps built in?  Who sells them, who is the mfg?

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