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If you make the wires 2 or 3 cm long, you can leave the pinheader into the case of the PICkit when you’ve finished unbricking it. The AUX pin doesn’t need to be connected. The pinout is the same as the one on the PICkit’s programming header (MCLR/VPP, VDD, GND, PGD, PGC, AUX). Make sure you get the pins in the right order. The small notch on the silkscreen of J2 is the MCLR/VPP pin. Or you omit the pinheader and just stick the wires into the spare programmer’s female header as I did. Since the pitch of J2 is smaller than the 2.54mm header required by the PICkit’s programming header, we’ll need connect a 6-pin 2.54mm pinheader to it using wires. Next to this microcontroller is J2, a row of 6 pads that can be used to program this microcontroller. Inside you’ll find a small PCB with a PIC 24 microcontroller. So first order of business is to pry open 3 tabs on one side of the case, and you’ll be able to snap it open. The PICkit3’s case doesn’t have any screws, it is kept closed by tabs. Connect the spare PICkit to the bricked programmer Ironically to do this you’ll need another PICkit programmer. The Power, Active and Status LEDs stayed on and I couldn’t load any more firmware.
#Pickit 3 header serial
It still got recognized by the host computer as a PICkit3 USB device, but with an empty serial number. The PICkit 3 v3 application crashed while loading new firmware into the PICkit3, and it ended up bricked. Unbricking the PICkit3 Posted on: 07-01-2015 Categories: Electronics Author: David Steeman