I've been getting more voltage-conscious ever since I got that
dsPIC33F. Anyway, the PICKIT2 program likes to default to 3.3 V (or so
it says) for programming the dsPIC33Fs. However, when I actually
measure the voltage using a multimeter, I get 0.5 V higher voltage. So
I turned the voltage down to 2.7 V and now the multimeter shows 3.3 V.

Is this a bad/dangerous thing for the PIC? I mean - when the PICKIT2
is set to 3.3 V, it's spitting out around 3.7 - 3.8 V. Will this
damage the PIC? Nothing has been damaged so far, but I'm just curious
why the voltage output on the PICKIT2 is not regulated and way higher
than what I'm setting it at.

I opened it up and found a few coils inside. I'm guessing it's a "transformer".

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