Sorry, I wasn't trying to be difficult.  I just honestly haven't noticed the term ripple in anything I've studied so far about PICS and electronics, and I was legitimately curious to understand more about what it was.  (Besides being a song by the Grateful Dead.)



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> > When does ripple cause problems?  Will a rippled (rippling?) input cause
> a
> problem with PICS?  More specifically, let's say I'm using a PIC to blink
> LED's or control a small stepper motor.  Would this be a problem?
> 
> The datasheet tells you to use regulated, if you don't then expect strange
> results.
> Are you just trying to be difficult?
> 
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