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Title: Pickit 2 & Clones
Post by: Garyi on January 05, 2010,

I am  lookng at Pickit 2s and see that there are a lot of clones out there. What are the pros and cons of the clones besides the lower price? Should I stick to the real thing?

Gary

Title: Re: Pickit 2 & Clones
Post by: wbuehler on January 05, 2010,

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I am  lookng at Pickit 2s and see that there are a lot of clones out there. What are the pros and cons of the clones besides the lower price? Should I stick to the real thing?

Gary

Gary,

I would suggest for ease of use buy only an actual Pickit 2

Bill

Title: Re: Pickit 2 & Clones
Post by: Garyi on January 05, 2010,

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I am  lookng at Pickit 2s and see that there are a lot of clones out there. What are the pros and cons of the clones besides the lower price? Should I stick to the real thing?

Gary

Gary,

I would suggest for ease of use buy only an actual Pickit 2





Bill

As I thought

Thanks Bill

Title: Re: Pickit 2 & Clones
Post by: aERonAUtical96 on January 05, 2010,

Some of the clones claim they support a chip (ie the chip in the dongle), but they don't.  Pay the extra $ for the pickit2

Title: Re: Pickit 2 & Clones
Post by: Blackbeard on January 06, 2010,

I've been researching this very thing. As someone told me, I've probably spent more time looking around for a clone or way to program these PIC24s than it's worth. They're right, too.

Seems there's a new ICSP protocol for some of the new PICs. I know my JDM doesn't support it, so that's out. And a lot of the clones, even some from the original schematics and firmware, don't always include what's needed.

So when I can, it'll be the PicKit2 for me.

steve

Title: Re: Pickit 2 & Clones
Post by: Garyi on January 06, 2010,

Thanks to All. I ordered the Real thing from Microchip  :D

Title: Re: Pickit 2 & Clones
Post by: wbuehler on January 06, 2010,

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Thanks to All. I ordered the Real thing from Microchip  :D

 ;D

Title: Re: Pickit 2 & Clones
Post by: Night Owl on January 06, 2010,

My brother kept buying cheap generic programmers and would run into chips he couldn't program.  The PIC for the dongle for one.  So for Christmas I got him a PICKit2.