Quote Originally Posted by Darrel Taylor View Post
Steve's picture looked familiar. So I thought I'd show my programming cable for 12F629/675/683 etc.
The molex end plugs into my EPIC programmer

You can just stick the chip in it directly.

Or clip it on a chip on a PC board.

Works great.
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I have a project which could benefit from using SMD PICs as the space the board needs to go into my model is quite tight. I've found the 3M clip at DigiKey but I'm unclear as to which pins I need to wire to program. I have an EPIC USB MEL so I'm presuming I can just remove my ZIF for regular DIPs and plug in the Molex connectors to the programmer, but it would be a big help if someone could tell which pins go where (for the 8-pin PIC above, it looks like the wires are connected to the PIC pins 1 & 2 and 5 & 8 - is that right?

If reviving this old thread is bad manners, I'll start a new one.