Michael Rigby-Jones wrote: > Correct, the signal being measured needs an amount of noise. However, in a > system with a 10+bit converter (especialy the PIC's) it's not unusual to > have enough noise to toggle at least the LSB occaisionaly. It ceratinly > looks like the OP has a fairly noisy signal anyway. Cheapest cleverest way to get some noise into the ADC input? Small antenna track on PCB? Tiny cap coupled to Vdd pin?? :o) -Roman -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body