Colin hoof
Member
I have recently built a pic kit 2 clone and have a genuine pic kit 2 as a backup device.The circuit I used is on this website https://www.obddiag.net/prog/pickit2.pdf. After construction I found the device was recognised, by the pic kit 2 software and could communicate with the device via usb.The problems started testing the unit within the pic kit 2 software version 2.61. When testing vdd it detected a short on the vdd line and could not conduct the vpp test due to the previous vdd fault detected. As all the transistors are mosfets and majority are controlled by the pic18f2550,is the microcontroller faulty or is it a problem with the mosfets ? Getting supply to op amp and microcontroller green led lights up and amber led when supplying power to target.Only shows fault when troubleshooting in pic kit 2 software.Any ideas as I had high hopes of this actually working,unless it is something obvious I have overlooked.