Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> 1) PICKit 3 died after updating firmware
> 2) My PICkit 3 connection problem
> 3) PK3Err0038 Failed to initialize PICkit 3 (many threads)
> http://www.microchip.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=474136

Good grief....

*quickly scribbles "PICKit 3" off of the shopping list*

One of my friends asked me what he needed to get started with PICs about 
a year ago. I'm glad I told him to get a PK2 (although at the time the 
PK3 wasn't released)...

The thing is, Programmer To Go looks handy for doing production 
programming (blasting a USB bootloader into 18F85J50s and enabling the 
bootblock write protect). But if the rest of the hardware is that 
shaky... hmm.

> PICKit 3 uses similar design approach like ICD 2/3 where you
> need to switch firmware for different family of PICs, but
> then ICD 3 is okay since the firmware downloading is pretty
> fast and the bootloader seems to work fine. PICKit 3 is
> not as fast and the bootloader seems to be problematic.

I can live with firmware-switching as long as it's reliable and doesn't 
end up bricking the programmer on failure (or there's some form of 
emergency recovery procedure that is fairly quick and doesn't require a 
second programmer)...

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