At 09:22 AM 8/11/07 -0700, jim wrote:
>Arnold,
>
>That depends on your definition of "decent".  In my book,
>the $200.00 for the PICStart Plus is decent.  This is a good
>value.  It works and works well.   Same story with the ICD.
>I believe it's around $150.00 or so.  This too is a good value.

Hmm..
I suppose, but I use the BA1FB programmer for AVR devices, at about $5,
the JTAG Ice (similar to the ICD) is $40, and the ICE-200 at $200. But
then, that's for the AVR line.
I know the Picstart does multi-voltage verification, but I don't need that
in the AVR.

>Now, there are others that supply programmers, and most of them
>are pretty good.  Some ae less than ideal.  And others just plain suck.
>But most are good.  Usually these are somewhat less expensive.
>And quite a few of them need some sort of tweaking to get them to
>work just right with your particular machine/software combination.
>So, in the long run, you really don't save much money by using the
>3rd party stuff.  Or at least that's been my experience.

I spent quite a while getting a picstart to program F627's and 628s
recently, turned out to be a bug in MPLAB.  When a new release came out,
problem was gone.  Mchip denied any known issue though in the earlier version.

Point being, everyone has problems once in a while.
Not just the off-brands.



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