Mike Hagen wrote:
> I use the watchdog a lot on projects to wake from sleep, take a
> measurement or status and go back to sleep.
> May not be real accurate timing (WDT really has a big tolerance on
> it's timing), but I like using it this way.

That's not really a watchdog then, but a wakeup timer.  I have used PIC
watchdog timers for that purpose too.  In one case I got around the large
tolerance in the wakeup period by occasionally leaving the main oscillator
running during a WDT period to calibrate it.


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