Nice ! haven't the curiosity of fast heating up to +60 C after that ? The most problems comes after a large humidity variations which is related to temperature change. ( even in climatic chambers ) regards, Vasile On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, John Hansen wrote: > Since Roman explored the high temperature end, I thought I would look into > chilling the chip. I used some quick freeze that is supposed to take the > chip down to -45 C (I have no way to verify the actual temperature, but it > got very very cold). For this experiment I used a 16F628 (with the > internal oscillator. ) The result was a decline in speed of about 2.8 > %. 9600 baud serial communication still worked fine, however I have a > piezo speaker hooked up that beeps when a key is pressed and the pitch of > the beep was slightly lower, as one might expect. All of this makes me > think seriously about doing away with the resonator in this project. > > John Hansen > > > At 02:11 PM 1/22/2002 +1100, you wrote: > >I did a VERY quick test with some 16c505 and internal > >RC osc at 4MHz. Speed variation between chips was less > >than 0.5%, and what surprised me was the difference > >between 27'C and 40'C was only about 0.5% also!! > >I only measured about 5 or 6 chips, and they were > >from the same (recent) batch. > >-Roman > > > > > >Rudy Rudy wrote: > > > > > > If anyone tries this, please post your findings. I am sure that many > > > people here would love to know the outcome. > > > > > > Rudy > > > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics