At 10:23 AM 6/30/98 -0400, you wrote:
>We have been experiencing some high failure rates with resonators and
>the
>16C57.  We are using 3 different manufacturer's and have experienced
>failure rates in the order of 2.5 to 10 %.  Some of these are
>intermittant.  Someone had mentioned to me that this issue came up in
>the past
>on this list.

What speed resonators are you using?  20 MHz PIC is not reliable using a
resonator.  Also, are you using a resonator with internal capacitors?





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