> I'm experiencing about a 3% failure rate on my PIC-based 
> product. (snip) Is this a normal failure rate for this 
> type of crystal? 

I am not into big numbers, but last week I got a 'dead' Wisp628 returned
that was caused by a non-working crystal. This has never happened before
on ~ 1k Wisp628's. Currently I use a resonator instead of a crystal for
the prefab Wisp628's (the kit still has a crystal to avoid customer
confusion).

Wouter van Ooijen

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