Blank checked perfectly (and programmed) after the wire insertion!! thanks again Neil

regards

Andrew

Ahhh!! I missed that bit as I didn't scroll down far enough!!

My Fault!!

Many thanks!
Have a good Day Neil,
Andrew

Hi Neil Got a bit of a odd one here I don't understand......... L0159: >> 2023.Mar.25, 13:30:31 L0160: Blank checking device: Motorola MC68705P3. L0161: Device insertion test ... L0162: Device insertion test - error! L0163: Bad contact at pin(s) 40 of programmed chip. L0164: Elapsed time: 0:00:00.9 ...

Hi
Just to finish this off...

today I got some brand new ones and all is good!
I was convinced I must have been doing something wrong!

Cheers and thanks again
Andrew

Hi Neil,
I have a batch of 4 here, 3 show this behaviour and one is fine! so it looks like 3 chips are faulty when programming ISP. very weird! think I should buy some more!

Many thanks for looking into this for me, it seemed odd!

cheers
Andrew

Hi Neil got a bit of a weird one, If I program the PIC16LF627A via the zif socket.... all is well program works well when I do so via ISP with the same file, programmer confirms verify is good!, but chip does not work! so I put chip back in the programmer ZIF socket and do a verify... It says its di...

Cheers thanks perhaps you could start a cheaper 'hobbyists' budget range of adapters for people like myself who don't need 10,000 actuation's or can afford the commercial adapters? especially for the 48XP/UXP adapters which are just a pin for pin change, nothing special on those adapters! sadly bein...

I have now used the adapter shown above, removed the bottom pin for pin board, made a veroboard equivalent and wired it in accordance to the pdf found online for my old dataman 48xp/uxp, and it worked 100% that 'specialized' adapter was listed on your site for £175 plus postage plus vat etc, so made...

Many thanks Neil

sorry for the late reply as didnt see your answer.

I found that my old Dataman 48XP/UXP actually supported it with no troubles! seems a better programmer than the later ones, does chips with fewer adapters than the 48pro2 I recently bought!

thanks
Andrew

Hi I have just got a 48pro2 to just read the AM29F160 chip, I to find I now need a £210 adapter ONTOP of the price I have just paid to get the dataman 48pro2! adap.jpg why can I just not use a pin for pin adaptor? why do I now need a £200 plus adapter? can I just not hire one? I only need to read 2 ...