[KenWittlief]

ok, then the best fix I can think of would be to write a 'warm up' count - something that counts 38 or 76 loops through the 38Hz code loop while compmode is disabled, then sets a flag

and the flag allows the telearm-code to run

this is funny in a way, when I was a kid, if you wanted to watch TV you had to turn it on 10 minutes early to let the tubes warm up before you could watch anything

and now here we are with our solid state devices, and you still have to let computers boot up for 10 minutes, and even our robots have to 'warm up' before the inputs are valid!

OK - If thats the way it is we will have to get creative with the powerup timing

thats to everyone for your input - its good to know that the strange behaviour of the code is at least explainable. :^)