On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Andy Kunz wrote:

*>Now you can't even see them glow most of the time because they replaced the
*>windowed chips with flash.  (I _did_ manage to accomplish this with a
*>PIC18F6720 the other day.  My scope probe slipped and connected Vpp to an
*>adjacent pin).

Vpp is supposed to be current limited to ~40mA, no ? <duck>

I almost managed to light up a 16C54W way back when I designed my first
programmer from scratch but I stopped just in time. That last extra check
is worth it ;-)

Peter

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