Hi all,

How does anyone cut the leads on crystal oscillators? I used some wire
cutters and after a week the crystal failed.... I've heard before that you
need to do it a different way to avoid the shockwaves going up the lead and
cracking the crystal but how does anyone do it?? Is it better to do it
before soldering it in?? Alternatively if crystals are "weak" would a
resonator be a better option in an automotive setting? What does anyone
think??

TIA,
Ben

ps I've programmed some 16F877s using the modified NOPPP software and they
work just fine (the above was on 16F84s!).
Source code: website.lineone.net/~btbromilow/noppp2.c
Zipped executable website.lineone.net/~btbromilow/noppp2.zip

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