At 02:43 PM 2/1/03 -0700, Dal Wheeler wrote: >at one of the microchip seminars they said one of thier clients had a few 12 >bit cores embedded in earth drilling bits; must get fairly warm in that >scenerio --even with the coolant pumping through it... There are some people on the list that design down-hole instrumentation and they can tell you how hot their stuff gets. One interesting thing: they can't use Flash parts. Only the eprom based PICs work when they get that hot. dwayne -- Dwayne Reid Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax Celebrating 18 years of Engineering Innovation (1984 - 2002) .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .- `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' Do NOT send unsolicited commercial email to this email address. This message neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads