At 12:39 PM 2/23/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Startup is an issue--but so are false resets.
>Had an engineer working for me once that thought the cap on MCLR was the
>Holy Grail, and absolutely necessary to prevent false resets.
>Your thoughts?
>Kelly
>

[And along comes another can of worms. Where the heck are the fish?]

How big was the cap? Reset (22 uF) or bypass (.01-.1 uF)?

What else was in the ckt? (R1, pullup diode)?

How big was the pullup resistor (2K or 50K)?
(big ones definitely are a problem).

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