> There's a long-standing tradition of using a little three-terminal reset
> generator to make sure the PIC starts up properly.  I suspect there was
> some trouble with this many years ago and we just kept up the
> practice.   So what I'm asking today is if we all trust the PIC internal
> reset circuit to work reliably, every time.    Expected answers will be
> 'yes', 'no', and 'it depends'.    To help with the 'it depends' part,
> consider that we're using a "real" power supply, such as some off the
> shelf
> thing or maybe the one inside a PC.   As opposed to something homebrew, or
> something slowly ramping like solar power or a string of potatoes.
>
> Thanks...
> Barry


I have stuff running on a variety of power supplies (though not potatoes)
and have never had a reset problem. It seems that between brownout detect
and power up timer, and WDT on chip, we've got it covered.

Harold

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