RC..cap to ground...R to pic pin....led across C...R is the current limiting resistor for the led and is also used in the RC timing calculation '1' turns it on '0' turns it off...or C to Vcc where '1' turns it off and '0' turns it on. Just play with values of C and the off/on/off of the pic to get what your happy with. Or you could pwm your pic pin. Mr Smiley -----Original Message----- From: John Pearson [mailto:xero@CMC.NET] Sent: 06 June 2001 1:34 To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: [OT]: Blinking LED softly.... How can I soften the blinking of an LED so that it doesn't go on and off so abruptly? Is there a way of doing this with just an RC and no transistor? I am blinking an LED with a pic port and I can use either high or low to light LED. Thanks John -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.