Hello,

Thank you for your answer.

Keep lines to the crystal very short

-> No crytal used

Put a 7V Transzorb across the power

-> what is a Transzorb?

Feed the Vcc through a schottky diode - and put
2x 10uf (low ESR) and 4x .1uf on the PIC side.

-> How will it protect the pic form ESD? It will reduce the noise for sure...

Use an LF part (so that it will run at a lower voltage)

-> What is a LF? Low Freq? What for?

Run it at 4MHz

-> I need 8MHz, but again, what does it have to do with ESD protection?

put 2K in series with every input along with a .1uF to GND right at the chip.


-> Capacitors are used to filter electrical noise, right? I'm using 47UF across the power supply anode and cathode and 0.1uf for the PIC between GND and VDD

If possible, put a 330 ohm resistor in series with every output.

Most of the components are protected against ESD, aren't they?