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Re: Commands

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Originally Posted by EricVanWyk View Post
I am guessing that this means that there is a watchdog that is timing out.
Yes, the Master processor watches our User processor closely. If we don't talk back to it and miss a couple of communication packets (38 per second) then it shuts us down and displays the red OI "Code Error" LED of death.
A two second delay would be way too long.
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