On Tue, 21 May 2002, Wild wrote: >Richard P. will bounce you for putting this forward like I said this on the >16th may. Huh ? Can you elaborate on that sentence please ? >We used to do this on alarm contacts so that there was a delay before alarm >threshold was reached. also it cut down false alarms. > >Art. Ok. But I know cases where the cap tuned the long line to a certain frequency with the switch open or bouncing open and ... there is a reason for that series resistor with the switch even if it's on the board ... Peter -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu