>
>Ahh, good, so you are the guy to answer Tony's question.
>He was wanting a way to temporarily stop the PIC oscillator
>during ICSP, and wondering about pulling OSC1 straight to gnd,
>and whether this would damage the xtal.
>
>I was thinking it might be safer, all in all, to do so thru
>a 150ohm R [assuming this would stop oscillation - which I don't
>know for sure it will].

That's what I thought I was replying about in the first place.

You won't hurt the xtal, but the pic osc output might not be too happy, and
definitely higher power consumption.
Ground the pic osc input pin instead, that one can stay tied to gnd forever.

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