AVR-Chat

Minimum 4 times a day scrub with lye soap and a scrub brush or a 
scouring pad, rinse with clorox water.  Do this for a week after each 
PIC project and you should be okay.  A saturated solution of NaCl in 
water will also do as a substitute for the clorox water and should do 
the trick.  With time, after a couple of projects, you'll decide a PIC 
isn't worth the pain.

I met one of the guys on this list several years ago on another...and he 
decided to start with PICs.  I noticed he listed all of his PIC tools 
for sale soon after he tried an AVR project.


REB



David VanHorn wrote:

>On 7/2/07, John Samperi <samperi@ampertronics.com.au> wrote:
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>>At 07:58 AM 3/07/2007, you wrote:
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>>>What I'm wrestling with at the moment, is what the SONAR wants though.
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>>It MUST be that darned PIC messing with your mind :-)
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>Yup.. Pic rays..
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>>>but you CANNOT read the data using the broadcast address..
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>>That makes sense otherwise all units would try and respond at the same
>>time and...crash...
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>True, but if you have only one device on the bus, then why not let it respond.
>The thing that bugs me is that this isn't a documented behaviour, and
>their support guys said that what I was doing (including the broadcast
>address) ought to be working.
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>>Must admit it is getting interesting though, I tried to compile the test
>>code on Brian Dean's website but unfortunately it must have been written
>>with an earlier version of WinAVR and the new one does not want to compile.
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>The second write of the address seems broken, unless I'm reading it
>wrong, he's setting up to not get an ack but testing for the ack in
>the result code.
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