At 01:11 AM 6/26/02 -0500, Pic Dude wrote:
>Second try.  Surely someone must have an idea about
>using 2-pin resonators with PIC's  ...?

I don't bother any more - I now use 3 terminal resonators with the built-in
capacitors.  All brands that I have tried work OK at 4 MHz but some people
have had problems with some brands at frequencies higher than 10
MHz.  Harrold H can fill you in on that.

But yes - 2 terminal resonators will work just fine if you add the
appropriate capacitors to them.  Think of them as a low quality crystal -
much looser tolerance, much lower Q, more loss.  But they start up MUCH
quicker than crystals.

dwayne

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