Ah.  You only mentioned redesigning a line of PV charge controllers, which
is why I did not assume you wanted to build a custom programmer.  The two
do not seem to be implicitly connected.  For a custom programmer, I
believe there are complete programming specifications on the Microchip web
site, if you haven't seen them yet:

http://www.microchip.com/1010/suppdoc/specs/index.htm

Dale
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On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Christopher Dusch wrote:

> The BULK ERASE routine should be the same for all 16F8x PICs, right?
>
> A commercial programmer will eliminate my problem, but will also eliminate
> the possibility for designing a custom programmer (which we plan to do)
> because we will still not be able to erase the PIC.  I hope I'm making
> myself clear.

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