at one of the microchip seminars they said one of thier clients had a few 12 bit cores embedded in earth drilling bits; must get fairly warm in that scenerio --even with the coolant pumping through it... Me, I've had a ceramic dip hot enough to probably boil water on when carelessly wired (enough to melt the breadboard) --part still worked after that (well, sort of...) -Dal ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn Mulligan" > What's the highest temperature that anyone has run a PIC at? -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads