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Hi again sorry to post here but I can't find the latest version of PPP. The version in my computer seems older than that in the student labs and will now work with some configuration words for the 16F1847. In particular if I disable Low voltage programming I get a program fail error on my machine; t...

Have given up on the 16F1827 and moved to the 1847 which is the chip I hope to use next year. The good news is that it seems to work so far without any problems - code downloaded and ran perfectly first time.
Sean

I also use the DHT11 but with a PIC 12F683 acting as a 1-wire slave emulator and a 1-wire master (PIC Arduino or commercial) to display the data. I find that the ability to emulate 1-wire slaves (mainly DS18B20s), is very useful.
Happy to post more details if anyone is intereted
Sean

BenJ has kindly posted the latest version of PPP and I have been trying it out with mixed success on the 16F1827. Some code downloads fine but some does not. I have a narrowed it down to a very simple bit of code where if I write 0x00 to PORTB the device programs fine but if I write 0xFF to PORTB pr...

Enamul by old I mean c 2000 vintage. These used the parallel port of the PC. In fact I can no longer check as we have upgraded to new PCs without parallel ports. I know when I tried about 2 years ago that I had no success with the old programmers. Possibly they can be made to work. If so they might ...

Ben
thanks. I have successfully installed and am programming a 16F1827 without any issues. I am aware that the newer PPP won't work on the old programmers.
Sean

Hi Many thanks, however I think I also need the latest config 2 as the config 3 file seems to be exclusively 18 series? My other config files are equally ancient 2007 versions. I have my laptop today and the config files are September 2009 which has the 16F1827 config, but not the 16F1847. Possibly ...

I'm sure this can be done but I'm not sure why. I have successfully connected twelve daisy-chained DS18B20 to the same 1-wire line using an Arduino

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Hi we are using PPP with the EB006 pic programmer E-block (indeed we ordered 30 towards the end of last year). Because of University policy (I work at Northumbria) it is a real pain to install anything as I have to get technical support to do it. The strange thing is that when I installed the softwa...

Ben
sadly that's exactly what I tried previously. I will check however if the chips are OK after being given a Vpp of 13V.
I do have one recent board purchased last year so will try with that later on in the week.
Many thanks in any event
Sean

Hi Ben

thanks for the new PPP. It does not seem to give the option to use the LPT port but only the USB so I can't actually test it. Dou have a version which included LPT support?

Sean

Hi all sorry to post a new topic. I work in a University and we teach PIC programming in both C and assembly. We are using the rather old V2.1 boards with parallell ports. We have about 30 of these modified to give breakout 18 and 40 pin ZIF sockets such as RS 710-6697. These have given excellent se...

Hi I do not have an EB006 board but a more vintage V2.1 board run from a parallel port. (well actually I have about 30 of these so hope I can get things to run). I am using PPPV3 I have downloaded various patches for the 16F1827 and the programmer sees the 1827 fine under autodetect. The read PIC co...