[sdiy] A little help regarding control crystals

[Paul Perry]

Match the load caps to what he crystal specs
recommend. Often it doesn't matter, anyway.

----- Original Message ----- 
>I am in the process of building a midi-sync24 converter based on the
>Blacet midi-sync (http://www.blacet.com/MSdata.html) however the
>documentation is a little sparse and I am not quite sure what type of
>crystal I should be using for the clock of the PIC. I went ahead a got
>these:

>http://www.mouser.com/search/ProductDetail.aspx?R=520-HCU400-SX

>I am not sure if this is what I should be using since the load caps are
>designated as 10 pF instead of the 22 pF on the print. Any advice or online
>references would be greatly appreciated since I'm fairly new to
>microprocessor based circuits.