> Good day to all!
> In case I have accidentally put the positive side of the supply to Vss and
the
> negative to the Vdd of the PIC, would it be easily be damaged? I made a
> mistake. I think it lasted for about 5 minutes. Would the PIC still be OK?

At the kids electronics club we fried some 16c84's that way, and I once
killed my (at that moment only) 12c509aJW. Since then I put the chip in a
round-pin socket, solder a diode to the power pins and plug that combo in
wherever the chip is used.

Wouter

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