>>Not a big deal?? Fed *hours* later?? 
>>
>>It may not be a big deal to you, but you have obviously never 
>>met my cat. :=)

Je! You might be right, its just an "acceptable" failure, but it cannot
happened every day..., by the way, it doesn't. 

	In fact the machines are working really fine. The problems we have
encountered are mainly (funny):
	- people miss use: The machine is supposed to contained dry food.
One customer throw inside the machine meat and 	  spaghetti....
	- Installer incorrect handling: They where throwing the machines in
the back of the truck so that was actually why 	  the battery disconnects
and the previously set, time and programming was lost.
	- Distributors negligence: A distri thought it could be easy to copy
the machines since we where not in the same 	  country and we couldn't
control him. So he started to change chips and touch the circuitry... Many
burned pics... At 	  first we didn't know what the heck was going on,
then, when he was arrested for fraud to someone on his country,
his secretary told us the truth.
 	- Rat attack!!: Yes, big rats slip inside the machines and eaten all
the wiring... Never thought of that one...
	

	The other, harder to solve, problems I had, where mainly provision
problems. I don't get here the PIC16F630 or that one I don't remember that
someone mentioned. So I used what I have in stock. Now, some things had
changed so I'm now really choosing which PIC I need and I order it. Before
that I had to see what can I do with the variety that we have in stock...
Well, that's the *funny* part...:))

Well, I'll take a look at all the proposals you people wrote. Thanks!

Mauricio Jancic
Janso Desarrollos
Microchip Consultant Program Member
(54) 11-4542-3519
info@janso.com.ar
www.janso.com.ar

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