On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, John J. McDonough wrote:
> In desparation, I plug in another PIC, everything works just dandy.  Put the
> old one back in and nothing but heat.  I've abused a lot of PICs, many much
> worse than this one, and was never able to damage one.  Not sure what
> happened to this one, but now it's able to draw a bunch of current and get
> quite toasty in the process.  Quite a surprise.

Exactly the same thing happened to me. I narrowed it down to me not
earthing myself before I picked up the PIC. I don't know if was the real
reason, but I could reliably kill a PIC by walking across the carpet,
picking the PIC up and pushing it into its DIL socket.

Cheers,

Tim

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