On 7/14/05, Wouter van Ooijen <wouter@voti.nl> wrote:
> > So is a resonator more reliable than a crystal?
> 
> It is 'know' to be more shock-resistant, and it includes the capacitors,
> so that is one (or actually two?) things less to worry about.

  Absolutely.  

 And much
> cheaper too. The only catch is that a resonator is much less accurate: I
> think 1% worst case, 0.5 typical. A crystal is more like 50 or 100 ppm.

 There is another problem you probably forgot it. The Q factor of the
resonator circuit is much lower than with any crystal. This will gave
usualy a lower oscilation amplitude at high frequency compared with
the same frequency crystal oscillator. At high temperature the
amplitude will be smaller, quite sufficient to stop the trigger
connected on the oscout pin.

I can't imagine a production of 100 of "something" with PICs without
having an oscilloscope. Democratic technologies are a real mistery for
me.
:)

best wishes,
Vasile

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