Quote Originally Posted by Kamikaze47 View Post
The problem is, if its going to be trial-and-error to work out the right value, i'm going to need a lot of caps.
That's a fact.
But you've also got a completely configurable PIC that you can program in a bunch of correction values into.
(i.e. crystal is off 1%, program in 1% compensation).
So, as I see it, you only need 2 capacitors and a bit of math.