On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Niklas Wennerstrand wrote:

> You cant toss away the caps, they are needed. You can experiment with their
> values to get the oscilator design to fit your microcontroller.

I'm just curious.  Am I the only one who has never used capacitors with
the crystal, and never had one fail to start?  Or is this one of those "it
will work for more repetitions than you can test for one-offs and
prototypes but don't trust it for production" things?

Dale
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