Trouble with Pocket Programmer

Jeremy Gonyou jgonyou at hotmail.com
Mon Apr 17 12:48:35 GMT 2000


Hi Jeff,

I have an adapter rigged up for my programmer.  If a wire gets lose it does 
pretty much what you're talking about.  Ya might wanna try double (triple?) 
checking your connections.  I can't tell you how many times I've shot myself 
in the foot with loose wires or bad solder jobs, etc.

Jeremy

>
>I've never got the same file twice when reading any of the chips with my 
>new Pocket Programmer (P.P.).  I could read a chip then verify it to the 
>file and it would never match.  Each time I do a check sum calculation on a 
>chip it is different.  I have no idea for sure what is causing my problem.  
>I've tried the p.p. on my PII-300 laptop, my 286 laptop and my PII-350 PC.  
>It will not work correctly with any of them.  I did notice that the power 
>supply I got with the unit is putting out about 14V D.C. on my multi-meter. 
>  That is quite a bit higer than the 9V it's suppose to be putting out.  
>I'm gonna pick up a new P.S. at Radio Shack tomorrow and see what happens.  
>My best guess is either the high voltage is messing with the p.p. or the 
>p.p. is already fried because of it.  If I don't have any luck, I'll get 
>ahold of the place who built the p.p. (the company that builds it is only 
>15 miles from me) and see what they have to say.  I thought maybe some of 
>you may have some ideas.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>Jeff

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