Can't you just use a netbook and PicKIT3 / ICD3 etc for field programming?
Or you have to hand the device to the customer or a 3rd party?

Tamas




On 8 December 2011 21:09, David Duffy (AVD) <david@audiovisualdevices.com.a=
u
> wrote:

> On 9/12/2011 1:44 AM, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> Does anyone in the Brisbane (Australia) area have a CCS Load'n'Go ICSP
> >> programmer I can hire / borrow for a few days?
> >>
> >> I need to program some devices on-site (interstate) and one of these
> >> would make things much easier.
> >>
> >> I have another programmer on it's way to me, but it may not arrive in
> >> time for fly out on Monday.
> >>
> >> Backup plan is a PicKit 3 and a laptop, but the laptop is hard to
> >> balance on the top of a ladder!
> >> David...
> >>
> > The PicKit3 will do "load and go." I'm using a bunch of them to do fiel=
d
> > updates.
> >
> > Harold
> >
> >
>
> Hi Harold,
> I already have a bunch of PicKit 3 programmers, but they have one fatal
> flaw.  In "To-Go" (stand alone) mode, you can't exclude the EEPROM from
> the programming. :-(
>
> These field upgrades need to be done without over writing the config
> data (different in each unit) held in the EEPROM area.
>
> In PC connected mode, you can set the "Preserve EEPROM" for the PicKit
> 3, but that feature is not available in "To-Go" mode.  Very annoying.
>
> Some of the other programmers do not suffer from this issue.  Hopefully
> the programmer on its way from Kanda will arrive in time.
> David...
>
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