Hi and thanks for the tip. I will certainely do so but must warn you the
code actually works when the timer values are reduced. Also, it has to be
the second simplest code I have ever written short of flashing an LED. Will
post tomorrow anyway.
        John

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Joe Hamilton [mailto:joeh100@CROSSWINDS.NET]
                Sent:   Friday, 10 March 2000 10:40
                To:     PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
                Subject:        Re: Gotcha not

                I personally feel the problem could be in your code.  Why
not post it and
                let some of these experts (me excluded) look it over.

                Joe

                ----- Original Message -----
                From: Spehro Pefhany <speff@INTERLOG.COM>
                To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
                Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 4:38 AM
                Subject: Re: Gotcha not


                > At 05:29 AM 3/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
                > >What are the chances that your timing routines have a
glitch? When
                > >you use short times, you indicate it works fine. Longer
times cause a
                > >problem. Presumably for longer times you are using
additional
                > >registers to keep track of time. Do you not possibly have
a bug where
                > >these registers are not being incremented correctly,
causing problems
                > >with timekeeping?
                >
                > To check for a hardware problem... suggest you make a
program that
                > switches the relay on and off rapidly, maybe 1 second on/1
second off
                > and listen to it operate for a few minutes. It's very
important that
                > the solenoid valve be connected during this test, it's
quite possible
                > that the problems are related to the solenoid inductance.
                >
                > Best regards,
                >
                >
                >

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