I can assure you that although not original the china PICKIT3 clones
work very well, are well built  and inexpensive.

I'm now awaiting the arrival of my first ICD3 clone (US$109.00). As I
told in a previous thread, my original ICD3 passed away and I need a
replacement.

I would prefer to buy a new original one and for US$200.00 it would not
be expensive, but because of Brazilian particularities it would cost me
almost US$500.00 (price+shipping+taxes+taxes on shipping+taxes on taxes...)=
..

Try AliExpress, perhaps cheaper than eBay.


Isaac


On 12/01/2015 16:00, Jason White wrote:
> A cheap, questionable quality, PICKIT3 clone perhaps? See [1]
> Or if you can afford it, a ICD3 might be a suitable replacement. It is
> slightly faster for large chips, and possibly more reliable. However,
> I have not observed any differences in debugging reliability between
> the ICD and PICKIT on the one or two projects where I had both. See
> [2]
>
> Offhand, I don't know of any third party programmers that aren't
> clones which claim to support every microchip device like the PICKIT
> or the ICD.
>
> [1] Questionable Chinese PICKIT clone:
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Clone-Microchip-Development-Programmer-Mini-PICKI=
T-3-/350637699036
> [2] ICD3: http://microchip.com/icd3
>
> --Jason White
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Hasan A. Khan <hasan@khansden.com> wrote=
:
>> Hi,
>> My ICD2 finally died and am going to replace it with pickit3. I was
>> wondering what is the most recommended alternate and compatible choice f=
or
>> pickit3 these days. Thanks for your help here.



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