> On the subject of programmers, what are the decent offerings for
> production programmers nowadays?  Everything I do is at 5V, so that's
> all I need, but I'd need these to be reliable, decent priced (as I'll
> probably get a few of them) and coming with some level of support
> (direct preferred or properly-manned forum) for when things go awry.
>
> Cheers,
> -Neil.
>

We use several Microchip PM3 programmers. In production, they operate
stand-alone with code in the SD card. The user just selects the product
being built and then programs the part. We do a fair amount of SQTP
programming (for the two LSB of MAC addresses), and these support that.
They have been very reliable except once when MPLAB wanted to do an update
and killed the programmer. Microchip replaced it.

Harold

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