On Jun 4, 2013, at 2:17 AM, Electron wrote: > putting in parallel their ICSP/MCLR lines? You have to ask yourself whether the actual programming time is significant= compared to (for example) moving the chips into and out of the ZIF sockets= =85 BillW --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .