>Consider what happens when you have a large capacitor (say 10uF for
>arguments sake) and you turn off the power to the PIC system. What is the
>lowest resistance for the capacitor to discharge through? The ESD
protection

Whoops foot in mouth time - of course there is no ESD diode to Vcc, because
the programming voltage goes in here (RED) :) (/RED)

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