Gents:
About using a PIC or equivalent in a transmitter:
> However, my concern was using the device for protection
> - knowing my luck just as when it was needed to do a
> shut down, say after a flash-over, the thing would lock up,
Don't ever use it for protection where, if it failed for any
reason, things could cause hardware problems (or human
problems).
On high-powered transmitters that are computer-controlled,
the arc-sensors and so on are always at least backed-up
by relays. The kind that operate on DC, not solid state.
- Jim WB6BLD
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