On 15/6/03 03:07, "Picdude" wrote: > On Saturday 14 June 2003 23:45, Marc Nicholas scribbled: >> Amen to that! >> >> *PLUS*...leaving them out is just plain *lazy* these days. The cost of >> adding decoupling caps to a design is negligible...you can't argue you did >> it for cost reasons anymore. > > How about space reasons? I got away a bunch of times soldering the cap on the > underside of the board directly to the power pins, but now on one of my > boards, I have a sensor stuck under the board. The nearest free spot is very > close to the 0.1uf output cap from the 7805, so I did not add the bypass cap > in this case. Bad Picdude, BAD!!!! Go to the back of the class. Let's hope that you're not generating enough RFI to infringe FCC Part 15, coz I don't think they'll let me mail you components in prison ;-) -marc -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu