On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Mike Harrison wrote:

*>>My datasheet says up to 1/3 of the power is the watchdog. I am not using
*>>external reset or brownout, the wdt is the only thing that recovers the
*>>cpu from la-la land.
*>
*>WDT will usually NOT recover from brownout. My biggest complaint about
*>the 8 pin devices is that you often need to waste a pin for an
*>external reset - an onboard micropower brownout detector would make
*>these chips SO much nicer!

My experience is different. WDT does recover from brownout for me. This
assumes that the clrwdt instruction(s) are placed cleverly. I rewrite the
OPTION and TRIS registers as a part of the main loop too.

Peter

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