Many thanks to you and to Peter L. Peres for your comments. I am going to send a second message here with a different OT tag because it is so far off this topic that it needs it's own. I think that for special cases such as reading the temperature of the water pipes under the house, a DS18x20 seems like the best solution, but the discussion of a remote weather station raises an interesting sub topic. Martin McCormick "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ruben_J=F6nsson?=" writes: >I didn't mean to discourage you, just point out where you could run inte >trouble. _______________________________________________ http://www.piclist.com View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist