microchip pickit 3 programmer software download

switching between mplab and and x will still be a bitch (at work we have different pk3 with different modes to avoid losing time) but the fastest way to revert is to open the ipe, select a pic from a different family (eg: if it was pic18 select pic24) and hit connect. first of all it works and doesn't get you strange bugs and sudden crashes, second of all you don't need to install the IDE as well anymore (i think, there is the choice on what to install) so that isn't an '''issue''' anymore. maybe then you fix the old one and you suddently have two (this is also why is better to get genuine stuff) and why does everybody still want to use that standalone app crap? the MPLAB X IPE is so much better in so many ways. Also, if you get genuine if you had a problem like this you would just have to open a ticked and et voila, replacement PK3 coming straight from microchip for free. Never mess with chinese crap for programmers. no need to buy an ICD3 (by the way, WHERE do you find a genuine one at that price?) i would have suggested not to mess with chinese crap for programmers and buy the real PK3 for about 50 or 60, or the olimex clone, which actually work, for about 30.

i always had my pk2 to reflash the pic in my pk3 clone, like in here anyway in the pickit 3 standalone app you should have the tools menu and at the bottom of the menu you should have an option called download operating system if this doesn't work i think you bricked the thing.

Aaaah, the chinese clone constantly bricking problem.

Microchip pickit 3 programmer software download