Quote Originally Posted by Sam View Post
Hi,

I've been using the Epic for quite a while now but it's been giving me troubles and I have to keep trying several times to program PICs before it's successful. And I'd like to use my newer laptop that has USB ports only.

I know about the U2 but I'm considering the K149 from ebay.

My question(s): does the K149 work with Microcode studio ?
And is this a good USB programmer ?

Thanks for any advice,

Sam
I have both of the programmers you mention. I am now using the MELabs serial programmer (connected to a USB/Serial converter), and have no problems. In the past when I had an issue with my Epic, I called MELabs, and they made a suggestion that significantly improved programming success. It's been several years, but I don't remember what worked.

Any programmer will work with MCS.
No programmer works as well or as fast as a bootloader.
The K149 was no better or no worse than the MELabs programmers.