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mv4wd / RCHourglass

DIY lap timing system
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help with the PIC programming please #6

Closed xavieralexander closed 2 years ago

xavieralexander commented 2 years ago

Dear MV, a lot of appreciation for your work on this project ! I am totaly new on PIC programming, i have the programming board and the PIC-chip of your diagram ( PIC16F18313 ) , and i want to program the PIC chip with PICkit 2 v2.61, but this chip is not in the supported chip list of the software, if i try a few other 16F models, it recognises the chip, although programming fails. to be honest, i don't know what hex file is i need to import and write to the chip ... you have 8 different hex files in your github/rchourglass/firmware/transponder/bin map. I just copied the hole content of 1 hex file and pasted into a blanc .hex file for uploading to the programmer. Your hourglass manager.exe deosn't detect anything in the third TAB ( PIC Programming ) any help to get me on the way would be greatly appreciate and if all works on my side, i will donate for sure for your work ! kind regards, Xavier error-pickit

mv4wd commented 2 years ago

PIC16F18313 can be programmed only with PicKit 3 or 4. Microchip does not support the latest PIC on older programmers. The other way round is to use the decoder... but if you tinker with PICs, it's worth buying a PicKit3 o 4 even for debugging

xavieralexander commented 2 years ago

Thanks fot your answer, but i managed to add the PIC16f18313 manualy in the part family through the PicKitV2 .DAT file and it works just fine 16f18313

mv4wd commented 2 years ago

Great! The different hex are for different transponder numbers.