Yes.  Sooner or later you will be wasting hours and hours
wodering why a device works at home, but dies in the car 10
miles from home.  With all my other bad habits, i just cant
bear leaving an easy thing like caps to stray capacitance.
I prefer tempting fate other ways.

alice

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> > 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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