Thanks Tom, The traces going to the inductor are as short and fat as possible, about 20 mils away and 25 mil wide. :) Ground unfortunately has to be carried the length of the board, as I discussed I'm now using batter clips, but the trace is 25 mil wide. The trace joining the two resistors could be wider but this really carries almost zero current. Resistors are 1M and 500K approx. Traces to caps are short, but they are on the underside of the board, but I used a large via to connect them. Inductor is recommended from the datasheet so I don't think it would be saturating, I'm only drawing a couple mA also. Thanks for your help, Aaron -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics