I have two pic chips hooked together between B.5 on a 16f876 (sender) and B.5 on a 16f877 (receiver). I have a 2k2 resistor between the two at the 16f876 (sender) side. The 16f876 (sender) line is normally low and turns to high to signal it is done. The 16f877 is seeing faulse signals from the 16f876 that the 16f876 is not sending, I think just line noise? Can I just use a pulldown 10k resistor on the 16f877 side? 16f877 ------------------------[ 2k2 ]----16f876 | 10k | GND -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics