Hello, I am going to purchase an arduino Mega2560 and I would like to know whether it uses a 16 Mhz crystal or resonator I know a crystal is used for serial communication, but what about the clock for the atmega2560, is it a crystal or resonator(like on the UNO), also in here --> link it appea…

Arduino Mega2560 resonator or crystal

system January 7, 2011, 7:16pm 8

My UNO has a crystal on the USB controller and a resonator on the ATmega328p. I consider that a very reasonable configuration.

Regards,

Dave

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