Mike Hord wrote:
> Has anyone ever managed to program a PIC on a breadboard
> with an ICD2?

Yup.  Although I did notice occasional flakys.  I never did track down the
exact cause.  One suspicion was overheating since it seemed to get worse as
the longer the target circuit was on.  This was an early version of a dsPIC,
and they got a lot hotter than they were supposed to.  The latest versions
use much less power and can therefore be run at rated speed.

> I'm running the circuit at 3.15 volts,

That's a problem.  I haven't looked up the programming spec for your chip,
but I remember most of them want to be programmed at 5V.


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