> I cant figure this out. For all practical purposes
> (electrically) the PIC is
> just sitting in the original socket; no crystal, no loads on
> the clock/data lines etc

I do things like this all the time. But I always add some power
decoupling near the PIC.

> Incidentally, my observations are based two different
> hardware; the Melabs
> EPIC and a JDM compatible programmer.

Mine are (of course) based only on my Wisp628 programmer. It might help
that this one was designed with ICSP in mind.

Wouter van Ooijen

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