Why exactly are you needing to built your own "custom" programmer.  Rather
then use one of the far to many already available?

At 04:35 PM 12/18/2002, you wrote:
>Right, I have the programming specs from Microchip, but they obviously were
>not designed for the beginner.
>
>
>On 12/18/02 2:40 PM, "Dale Botkin" <dale@BOTKIN.ORG> wrote:
>
> > 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
> > ---
> > We are Dyslexia of Borg.
> > Fusistance is retile.
> > Your ass will be laminated.
> >
> > 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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