Thats a better solution than the mercury I think I will try something like a disconnect at ejection. > To prevent this you could do the following > What you really want to do is detect the blowing of the nose-cone (where the > chute is behind) > > if you change the following line in the source > OPTION_REG.6 = 0 'interrupt on falling edge of int > by > OPTION_REG.6 = 1 'interrupt on rising edge of int > > and you put a piece of aluminum tape on the nosecone that connects two wires > acting as switch (instead of the mercury switch) it could work > > Peter van Hoof -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.