Hi Bill sorry for late reply.I have posted a picture of the Junebug( I wanted to start a big thank post for the PCB once i got it working).The power LED is fine, the 18F2550 power LED is faint but i get 4.92v on it(the same i get on Vdd and Gnd from the USB port).I have already done the tests written in your manual, the busy LED doesnt light up when bootloader switch is pressed.I think it is a matter of programming the firmware. I did put my question that when i program my chips(all 4 of them the 18F2550's) the programming works great(except the encryption part) but it says that no config words have been set. I guess thats the problem for it not operating. Is this supposed to happen? I mean if it does ask us to set the config words, what am i supposed to set, the usual like
OSC=lp,WDT=off ??
I could whip up the parallel programmer(LVP) but i think one cant LVP a HVP'd chip right?