>
>I just looked and it is indeed 1uW. A Mouser 32kHz crystal also has 18k
>(min) ESR. Assuming no circuit capacitance and zero load from the CMOS
>input this should give ~1.2Vpk-pk on the hot side of the crystal, and work
>with a ~30k series resistor on a PIC at ~3Vdc. So far I've been using book
>values and this seems to tally with the book values.


Now I ask you, how many experimenters out there do you think are just using
some circuit taken from a datasheet, or from another experimenter, didn't
do their homework, and are having trouble with crystals?


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