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Constantly doing different setups for Timers

 
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Constantly doing different setups for Timers
PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 6:58 am     Reply with quote

Hello, i know that changing FUSES it's a totally BAD idea..

But i wonder if anything could go wrong if i do different setups
for timer on different situations, it could short the Life-Time of the PIC?

Thanks in advance.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 9:39 am     Reply with quote

The flash memory endurance on the 16F876A is a minimum of 10K writes.
So, if you changed the timer setup 10 times, doing experiments, you
would only use up 10 of the 10000 "lives" of the flash memory.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 9:53 am     Reply with quote

But, I'm puzzled, since there is no fuse on this chip affecting the timers...
So how does changing timer setups involve the fuses?.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 2:47 pm     Reply with quote

No, i'm not saying the fuses affects the timers.
I remember you recommended other user
not to mess with fuses because of what PCM Programmer says.

i was wondering if something analogue
happens when you use setup_timer on the main
it's ok to different setup for different conditions of inputs?
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 2:56 pm     Reply with quote

Running code has no 'life' involved at all. You could change timer settings 10000 times a minute for ten years without any potential problems.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 3:09 pm     Reply with quote

Thanks you Very Happy
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