On August 30, 2005 11:22 am, John Nall wrote:
> Now this seems too simple, so I figure I must be missing something.
> Does anyone see any possible problems that would make it a
> non-starter? (The project has to do with a trickle charger for my
> sailboat, which normally has no access to shore power).

Some processors such as the older Z80 has/had trouble with a slow rising 
voltage and so would not reset properly, therefore, use the watchdog 
timer to your advantage by using few of them interspersed about as far 
apart as possible (aim for about 2 Sec if you decide to use the 
x256counter else use a smaller spacing if you use a smaller divide on 
the watchdog counter, i.e. about 8msec if no counter used).
If your processor starts dropping-out due to lack of voltage, the long 
distance between (your program) watchdog resets should help stop your 
program from creating havoc on the hardware.
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