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Re: [ts-7000] Watchdog write failure while reading/writing to ttts5

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Watchdog write failure while reading/writing to ttts5
From: Kevin Cozens <>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:14:59 -0400
On 09/11/2009 02:34 AM, eric.robishaw wrote:
> I keep getting  failure feeding the watchdog during serial activity
> on ttts5...
[snip]
> It only happens about 1/500 times, but when it does fail, I have to
> assume that the watchdog feed failure is going to immanently cause a
> reboot, so I quickly shutdown my app when I fail to feed the dog.

If the timer was set to 1 minute and you only feed it once a minute, you 
could be in danger of a reboot. If the timer was set to 5 minutes and 
you fed it every 1 minute, you could miss 3 or 4 feeding times and still 
be ok.

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Cheers!

Kevin.

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