--- Dr Skip <drskip@gmail.com> wrote:

> Would a wall wart and a 7805 (or some value up from
> there) make it right?
> 
Does not apply for the case below. Check back
Mark Rages post on this thread. After reviewing some
of
the notes, PicKit 2 is pretty good with short circuit 
protection*pickit-devel*.  Anyway for your case go for

PicKit2 unless you want a BETTER programmer*support 
more PICs and have MORE realibility* which you would 
need to get another programmer. Debugging helps PLENTY

for beginners which you son would LOVE to have. Just 
step through the code at runtime. A definite feature 
for heavy users. Some do use without a debugger which 
is fine if you know what you are doing at assembly.

Anyway for a beginner and your encouragement a PICKIT2

is a good choice. Light on expenses plus he may change

MCU after a while like AVR which has better C support.
With PIC16F877A and dsPIC supported he can enjoy it
plenty until he wants to debug it. By then he want
more powerful programmer and debugger. 

John


> John Chung wrote:
> > --- Olin Lathrop <olin_piclist@embedinc.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> John Chung wrote:
> >>     
> >>> What corners did they cut on the USB compliance?
> >>>       
> >> For one thing minimum Vdd for bulk erase is not
> met
> >> for many PICs over the
> >> possible range of voltages received from the USB
> >> port.  The PicKit2 has no
> >> provision for making a regulated 5V.  It just
> uses
> >> the USB power voltage
> >> directly.  Another serious cut corner is that
> this
> >> voltage is also used as
> >> the reference for making and measuring other
> >> voltages.  I think you can show
> >> that Vpp will therefore be out of spec in a bunch
> of
> >> cases, but I haven't
> >> actually checked that.
> >>
> >>
> >>     
> > Thanks for the info.
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> >
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