Lawrence Lile wrote:
> 
> After thoroughl;y answering Kat's basic question on watchdogs, Tjaart
> wrote:
> 
> > 3) a) Never (ever) tag the watchdog in more than one place
> >       in your program. If you do, you might as well leave it.
> 
> I often use the CLRWDT instruction at the beginning of the main loop.
>  Are you implying that might not be the best place?
> 
> I often am forced to use CLRWDT in the middle of long timing loops as
> well.  Many of my programs just "sit around" for seconds or minutes
> at a time running a timing loop.  Your statement indicates this might
> be a bad idea.  Can you elaborate?

It is definitely a bad idea. Say your reload value for 
the 'golden brown' setting on a toaster got corrupted. 
It could stay in the loop until the guy's house is also 
turning golden brown ;) Long loops are dangerous, as a 
small difference in a reload value could make a biiiig 
difference in the timing.

See my other post on how to avoid this.

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