Hi=20 I am having problems with a home brew ICD the charge pump is only pusing = about 6v into the regulator! without the reg in its nearly 50v so seems = ok and i have dc checked using a wallwart into the reg and get vpp ok = but self test under mplab fails , and I have seen that using a dc psu = does not work (snail site)=20 The 330 uH I used was from Digi-Key (M7843-ND)as per http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist/freeicd/allparts.htm looks pretty small like a 1/4 watt resistor got the orange orange brown gold marking=20 I wonder if anyone has any ideas? please reply to email in sig thanks ps sorry for mis tagged post before Paul Erkiert paul@g4bks.fsnet.co.uk http://www.g4bks.fsnet.co.uk/ -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.