At 02:25 PM 6/11/01 -0500, Dale Botkin wrote:
>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?

I once said this oughtta be a faq:

http://www.dvanhorn.org/Micros/All/Crystals.php


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