Tjaart van der Walt wrote:
>
> Arvid Jedlicka wrote:
>
> > >      Has anyone tried making a cable to run from the PicStart Plus
> to a PIC
> > >      installed on a target board?  Unless there's something magic
> about
> > >      connection lengths, or crosstalk, or.... it seems like it
> could work.
>
> It works. Watch out for :
> 1) Earth loops
> 2) Powering the target board with your PP+ (it won't work)
> 3) Long cables
> 4) Capacitance on your RB6 and RB7
> 5) Too small pull-up on MCLR. The PP+ won't be able to move the
> voltage.
> It may be better to power up the target board and not connect the Vdd
> from the PP+.

I have often thought of using one of those cheap A/B DB-25 switch boxes,
and installing the pic of your choice into the common position, just a
db25 connector to a pic socket, and using very short cables to make the
connections to the programmer and target board.

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