On Sunday 28 August 2005 08:20 am, Olin Lathrop scribbled: > A better way to do this is to include one of the diodes in the feedback > loop of the regulator. That one 5V supply will be regulated well. The > others will be quite close due to the drops accross all the silicon diodes > will be about the same. Yep -- I should be able to select and "average" (in terms of power consumption) module and use that. > How much current are you talking about? If this is for production, my > ProProg (http://embedinc.com/products) can source up to 1/2 amp. Calculated up to 2 amps. In practice I've not seen more than 1.8A total. (I can have up to 10 pics on this board). I just ordered an ICD2 clone which I will try to get working under Linux. Cheers, -Neil. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist