James wrote :

> New to the whole pic thing. Got them blinking though.
> Here is my question what is the best pic chip for the job.
> 
> 1. Lowest power consumption pic

Probably one of the "nanoWatt" models. Available in both
the PIC16 and PIC18 lines.

> 2. Run 6 to 12 Leds

A DIP16 or DIP18. 16F684/688/818/819 maybe ?

> 3. Work on battery's - Like 4 double AA's

Add a low power low dropout regulator. 5V or lower.

> 4. Can run some sort of clock program that is user 
> programmable to turn off and on at certain times.

Are "times" real 24h clock ("wall clock") times ?
Or just "each 10 min" or something ?
Will it have some interface to set time and to enter
timestamps ? Keyboard ? Serial (from a PC) link ?

Add a 32k crystal to tmr1 and let the PIC sleep most of the
times. While awake, run on intosc for fastest startup
from sleep/lowest power.

> - Still trying to master the code on this
> one, also I will take interface Ideas on this one. Could it 
> be possible to use jumper settings for this?

What should the jumpers configure ? What is "this" ?

Best Regards,
Jan-Erik.



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