> On 22/06/2012 20:39, Mauricio Giovagnini wrote:

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>>>  Also, I've seen a number of posts that indicate that the Pickit3 is
>>>  problematic, compared to the Pickit2, but those posts are a year old.
>>>  Is this still the case?
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>>  The most important missing thing when pickit 3 was released was the=20
> standalone programming application that has the pickit 2.
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>>  But I read and watched several videos talking about the release of the=
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> standalone application for pickit3 but I can't get any useful link to the=
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> app.
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>>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D3EkNUa2nSDE
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>>  http://www.microchip.com/forums/m554515.aspx
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> It exists and can be found with a bit of googling, but I have found it=20
> fairly useless.


But in the official link of Microchip's PICKIT3 it isn't and that is, at le=
ast, a little bit weird.=A0=20

It is also referenced by a Microchip personel in the forum link I added and=
 it isn't there.=A0=20

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>>>  Most importantly though, I've read that each time the Pickit3=20
> switches
>>>  processor families, it needs to download new firmware.=A0 Not sure whe=
re
>>>  it's downloading from, but I'm assuming it means download off=20
> the
>>>  internet... ?=A0 If so, what if I'm not connected to the internet?=A0=
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> Will
>>>  it get it off my local PC, or will it just not be able to continue=20
> working?
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>>  It is true that new firmwares can be downloaded to the programmer when=
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> chaning device families but
>>  you don't need to be connected to the internet all the time.=A0 The=20
> firmwares are picked up from your MPLAB directory (v8.8x or IDE X)
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> This is the only part of the PK3 which for me is still buggy.=A0 I develo=
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> code in a VMware machine so I can port around my development setup.=A0=20
> When changing device families in MPLABX (most often 18F to 12F) I have=20
> bricked the PK3 three times.=A0 This necessitates opening it up and=20
> reprogramming using my PK2.=A0 The fix is to do the firmware download fro=
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> MPLAB8 on the host, this works flawlessly.

The same happened to me with MPLAB X IDE v1.10 and my ICD3.=A0 I had to rep=
rogram it with the MPLAB v8.84.

Fortunately the problem seems not to be present in MPLB X IDE v1.20 and it =
wasn't present in MPLAB X IDE v1.0

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