Hello Harrison.

> Paul....on another subject....I haven't forgotten your parts, if my
> &^%$ rep would just get them to me!!

  Mmmm.  *I* had, but I'll see what comes.

> Basically, thats what I have done, in polling for a 50 or 60 Hz
> system.  What I am finding is there is noise in the powerline causing
> grief on the count input.  I'm going to look at the suggestion of the
> low pass filter.

  What about the *software* low-pass filter?  I think my overall
proposal would be the way to go, just that I can't _quite_ justify the
time to code it all "just now"!  However, if you give me a few details/
parameters of what you are doing, I could perhaps look into it.  Nature
of oscillator, what sort of output, what else it does, why not a 12C508,
etc...

> On the bench, the circuit works great, its just when installed with
> noisy power, it fails at times.

  Of course.

> All I need now is a DeviceNet interface on it... :-)

  1 Hz interrupts off the Net?
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  Cheers,
        Paul B.