Quote Originally Posted by dragons_fire View Post
i looked at the PICkit manual, and all i saw was that they had the PGC and PGD lines isolated from the rest of the circuit with resistors. and the MCLR line has a diode on it to stop the high voltage from going into the rest of the circuit.

in my circuit, the PGM, PGC, and PGD lines arent used for anything but programming.
That's what I was talking about. All you should have to do is maybe add a switch for MCLR. You have to keep the diode to keep from feeding the 12v back into the 5v pullup, the resistors, I'd keep them in there so you could, in theory, use RB6/RB7 later on.