>BTW, like the other fellow, I'm a bit confused by your subject heading.
>My guess is that the servo is pulling the supply voltage down and the
>micro is resetting. What does this have to do with PORTB?

As Dan corrected me, it's not the servo signal PIC pin that's drawing the
current, it's the servo power supply lines.  Now that I think of it, I
probably measured the draw overall, not just from the pin.

However, the supply really never goes below, say, 4.8 V, and I have an
external reset circuit set at 4.0 V.  If it were brownout, then I would
imagine that the entire program would just reset and start at the beginning,
but it doesn't.  Often, it just "pauses" for about a second, then continues
at the same point in the code.  Other times, it resets to random code
points, and yet other times, only the IIC comms seem to be affected.  This
really only happens when the voltage drops, as I said, from 5.45 V max
charged to about 5.05 V.  When I pop the 16C71 with the same code into the
socket, it continues to work fine regardless of any further voltage drop.

--Andrew

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