TLVP only supports a few PICs. I think it is also
not so safe to use. People have fried their
serial or parallel ports on the motherboard using
simple circuit like TLVP when hot plugging.

Again a PIC programmer without a PIC on it is 
not worth considering in the long run. People
end up spend more time on debugging the programmers
than they spend on their project.

Regards,
Xiaofan

-----Original Message-----
From: Maarten Hofman [mailto:cashimor@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 9:32 PM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [PIC] I2C development tool for PC


Rochester, 17 juni 2005.

Dear Xiaofan,

> Actually no special adapter is necessary since you
> only need ICSP. What you need is soldering 5 wires
> (almost zero costs) from J3 and link them to your
> board or the correct pins of your ZIF sockets. The
> so-called adpater is just doing this for you.

So it would cost me an additional ZIF socket and a board to put it on.
I agree that the cost is low ($6 at most, maybe) but it is there.
Thank you for all the information! I decided that I'm probably better
off building the TLVP from Byron A. Jeff.

Greetings,
Maarten Hofman.
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