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I am trying to get a 13hz pwm out of the 1501 Cant' seem to get it going at the right freq.
I set my properties in the component and enabled it. I am using channel 4 that should be RA2. I can get a 1k out but it doesn't seem to let me go below that? The display in the component looks right?

Any Ideas?

Chad

To add what leigh said as PWM possible minimum PWM frequency is directly related to OSC frequency . another option is to use a lower OSC speed,

Sorry, I deleted my previous post because I realised that it should be possible to get a PWM in that range when the Int Osc is down at 31KHz,
which I now guess you are doing based on another post.
What is your actual result on hardware?

Hi Leigh,

Actually I am running at 16mhz. I was hoping that I could just set the pwn down low and let the hardware take care of blinking the led while the program did other stuff. I guess I could get creative with a timer and counters or just do it with delays..

Thanks,
Chad

Ah, right, so might deleted post applies
And as QMESAR post, the PWM max prescaler is divide by 16, and with an 8 bit counter you cannot get below that 1K.
Yes, you could consider a timer interrupt and software based counter to generate your lower frequency

Gotcha, I did find something else strange. Just a simple delay loop about every second I get a glitch in the output.
You can see it on the scope trace.
And this is my program.
Any Ideas? Chad

Looks like it's resetting, check watchdog timer setting

I turned it off and it does the same thing. Power is stable and good. Totally disconnected the programmer and it still does it.
Hmmm

I think I found it. It was the brown out detection. If I disable it it doesn't reset. Very strange.

Chad