Hello

I have the controller in the image, but its not working I'm guessing that the resonator is busted. I can't find any mainland europe e-shop that sells this 8Mhz ceramic resonators with 3pin. So can I replace this one with a two pin, and don't connect the ground pin? just the clock in and clock out?

Thanks in advanced.

 

As your diagram shows a 3 pin resonator has in-built capacitors on the input and output. 2 pin resonators don't have any in-built capacitors so you will have to provide them yourself. The usually value is about 22pF between input and earth and the same between output and earth.

 

Hello,

Microchip has a tutorial about oscillators.
The connection of x-tals and resonators is descibed on pages 18 and 19.

Greetings,
Bertus

 

Are you guessing the resonator is bad because of having checked the resonator output? Or are you just "guessing" guessing?

 

I have not tested the resonator because I don't have the equipment to do it. The debug led's of the system are OK, so the chances are that either the PIC is busted or the resonator is and is not providing the clock to the PIC. So I'm starting by the resonator.