Kalle Pihlajasaari said:

>I must say I PICs in the field fail very rarely, perhaps 4 out of
>1000 that I have had to do with.  All done with a PICstart
>programmer at standard voltage.

If 0.4% of hobby-progg'd chips fail, that's a very effective advert for
production-quality programmers! :-) Still, that raises a question which I (as
a newcomer) would love to know the answer to. How reliable are the PIC chips,
when programmed to production standard?.

Andy W.