> Spehro Pefhany wrote:
> >At 12:46 PM 8/3/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >>Jacob, better contact Microchip immediately. Just yell "500 parts",
> >>and they should give you their undivided attention. It is their
> >>parts and their tools.

It's not just 500 parts.. we only just programmed 500 so far. We have =
6000 devices to be ship in the next couple of month.

> >Pictstart+ is "Not a production programmer" so don't get too snooty,
> >but 10% bad is inexcusable. Did you do the Vpp fix if it was updated
> >from an earlier version?

Now this sounds interesting.  What is the "Vpp fix"?  One programmer was =
upgraded from FW1.5, the other from 2.0.

> Shoot, I'd get pretty snooty with 500 parts and all in-family tools.
> [however, I think employment of "panic" might be more effective].

I'm actually a bit worried.. Sending out products where some devices may =
have random biterrors is not really "a good thing" :)

> Besides, even if not production, it's likely they have been both
> programmed and are being used at the same Vcc and temperature.
> [?????? you better support me on this Jacob ;-)].

Yep, that's true. Temperature is the same, and the PIC is powered from a =
78L05.

I contacted our local distributor today, which called a Microchip =
office, but I got exactly the answer I expected... "Picstart + is not =
recommended for production, use Promate instead"..   I then pointed out =
that having a development programmer that caused malfunction in my =
firmware isn't really optimal...

Regards
Jacob Blichfeldt
jacob@blichfeldt.dk
http://www.blichfeldt.dk

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