Hi there!

I have programmed wel over a Thousand PIC's with a picstart B
and had not one fail in the field yet.

Maybe just lucky.

Zack
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> From: Andrew G Williams <AGW01@AOL.COM>
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: Hobby vs Production Programmers
> Date: Thursday, September 04, 1997 9:15 PM
>
> 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.