>
> I'm happy to help out but now you are asking a tough one. Some
> people claim it will shorten the life of the device but others
> say this is rubbish.
>
> I have left devices under the eraser for hours and it didn't seem
> to hurt them.
>
I ereased a number of PIC 16C5x.
Without the protect bit the erease took about 10-20 minuts.
I think that the time diffrence is caused by the eraser.
I once set the protect bit. After that the devices needed about
20 - 40 minuts to erease (with the protect bit cleared).

Eyal Oppenheimer
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