dose anybody has any experience with PIKPROG/PIKPROG+ ??
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i wanted to buy a PICSTART PLUS .. but after reading infos about this, i am not sure whether to buy picstart plus or pikprog+.
Alone, ICSP facility costs around 1000 Euro (with Promate II and ISCP module).
Any suggestions or any comment will be very helpful for my decision.
in my opinion PIKPROG is a very good and cheap programmer for PIC.
It's very fast because works on PC parallel port, supports all PIC families
(12xxx, 14xxx, 16xxx,18xxx) and also serial EEPROM (24Cxxx, 24Fxxx,
25Cxxx,59Cxxx,85Cxxx,93Cxxx).
PIKPROG accepts many HEX file format (Intel,Intel EXT, Motorola S, ASCII-SPACE-HEX etc. ), and last but not least it's much cheaper than PICSTARTPLUS.
we have this programmer in office nice programmer and cheaper then the picstart plus, work fine i never found any problem in it from the day of purchase,
at home i used IC-PROG a nice programmer in free ware line up with propic2 hard ware
I do not have the money sufficient to buy the programmer smartprog of elnec. I like much his software and wanted to contruir me the programmer, please somebody wants to post photos and schemes of the hardware.