I use Picstart to program my PIC in ICSP. I never use EPIC or other. What i do is to use DIP socket and solder those programming wires we need. at the other end of this "home made" adapter i put male header to fit in proto-board. That's cheap and work really well. I did for every different model. So it's quite simple to use them after.
One other thing you must be consider... be careful of the load on PGC,PGD pins. Programmer is not able to drive/sink lot of current. Even i use these pins for push button entry with pull down resistor. Usually more than 20K is working fine. In some other apps, i did a special ICSP connector that switch PGC,PGD pin from on board parts to programmer when ICSP connector is applied. That is usefull on these 8 pins PIC where all i/o are usefull. In case you use 8 pins, don't forget you can not use MCLR pin as an i/o, in case, no update will be available instead if you remove it from circuit.
Last edited by mister_e; - 27th October 2004 at 18:31.
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