Olin Lathrop wrote:
> Xiaofan Chen wrote:
>   
>> No. "I" stands for industrial and has never been specified for 0-70C.
>>     
>
> Yeah, I guess there is the "commercial" temperature range too, which
> definitely is 0-70C for some PICs, like the 16f876 for example.
>
> The point is different PICs have different temperature ranges, and you have
> to look at the datasheet for your particular PIC to see what grades it comes
> in and which one you need.  If you're going to operate outside the 0-70C
> range, you need to double check the temperature grade.  This is all I was
> trying to point out to Rolf, although I apparently got the names of the
> temperature grades wrong.
>
>
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Hi Olin.

No, what you did was make an 'authoritative' statement about a specific 
part without first consulting the datasheet.

This is very much the exact thing that you vigorously call 'lazy' and 
'stupid'. It is very much the same mistake I made moments before.

Rolf

P.S. CC'd direct to Olin because he's not an OT regular.

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