more on weird resets

Bill Freeman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.microcontrollers.gnupic
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	While power problems can be subtle, unless you're drivning
large loads with the outputs, I don't think that its likely to be a
power impedance problem.  I've certainly gotten away with awful power
wiring in th past, and that's with about 40 mA of loads on outputs.

	Where I did see a problem similar to what you describe was
when I left MCLR floating.  (I was pretty new to PICs, and wanted to
avoid having to disconnect MCLR from the rest of the circuit for
reprogramming.)  That was with a 16F84, several years ago.

	It's conceivable that your bread board has enough leakage to
+V to make things OK.  I've heard various suggestions for MCLR in this
discussion, but unless it's connected to a long lead, I think that a
10K pullup is enough.  It worked for me.

	My application was battery operated, drove a speaker and an
LED.  I also learned that pulling all unused inputs up or down helps
with power consumption in sleep, just in case that's interesting.

							Bill
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