AVR-Chat

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:32 PM, np np <harrabylad@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> In my experience its best to buy programmers made by the same manufacturer as the chips I am using.
>
> Sorry to mention PIC's but I have heard of lots of problems with none Microchip programmers.
> I can only guess the same is true for AVR.


There's a lot of junk out there, that's for sure.

I had an eprom programmer once, a mid-grade commercial unit, that
would program 8 chips at once, and usually three of them would crack
in half (ceramic chips) from the heat, and the other five would yield
three workable ones.
It was about $900 in 1984.