Roman Black wrote:

>
>This is  STANDARD fault with the Picstart Plus,
>or more specifically it's power supply brick.
>It seems to happen more in 240vac countries. It
>happened to mine and many others in the last
>couple of years.
>
While in Scotland, I lost 8 PIC18C452s before I descovered the problem
with using the PICSTART PLUS
on 240 VAC.  The WORST thing I did was try to use one of those
"Universal" power converters...
(It used a TRIAC to regulate the voltage, which put spikes on the
picstart and destroyed the PICs while programming).
A good old fashoned step down transformer worked well.

>
>-Roman
>

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