Rudy Wieser wrote:

> By the way : You can throw away Q1, Q2, R1 and R2 because you only need
to
> have the MCLR pin at Zero and +12.5 volts.  +5 Volts is only required
when
> _running_.  And you don't want that to happen when programming, do you ?

I thought that the AN589 had a bit of the "in circuit programming"
philosophy behind it - which is why you can turn off all three transistors
and let /bar MCLR just be pulled to +5V along with the power pin.

Thanks for the replies; I'll get to testing those possibilities soon.

Andrius