>Drew, it sounds like your problem is not excessive current draw from
>the PIC, but more likely noise from the motor is resetting the PIC.
>Servos usually have 3 pins, gnd, power, and signal. You apply a
>pulse train to the signal pin to move the servo, but the actual
>high current for the motor comes from the power pin. A PIC pin
>could not drive enough current to spin the motor, I would think.
>
>You probably need more filtering on the servo power/gnd pins.
>Also, it's possible you need filtering on the signal pin too,
>and maybe /Mclr on the PIC.

I'll buy that.  You're probably right about the signal pin not being used
for high current draw, but I'm not sure how much that signal pin draws,
either.  Could you surmise why is it more susceptible to resets when the
battery voltage drops from 5.45 down to 5.10?

When you say "more filtering," do you mean "at least some filtering"? :)  I
have none anywhere, really, except for a bypass cap on the power/gnd PIC
pins.  The servo power/gnd pins are shared with the receiver's power supply
pins.  I'm kind of "branching off" of the line from the receiver to the
servo.

Thanks,

-Andrew
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