> Be careful with adding a cap to ground on your MCLR line.  IIRC,
> the ICD2 manual discourages this practice because it can affect
> the timing with which the line is brought to Vpp.

And there are other reasons, which have to do with the capacitor
discharging itself into the PIC when V+ is lost. This can kill the chip.
Read the datasheets.

Wouter van Ooijen

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