26 Feb
2012
26 Feb
'12
12:59 p.m.
On 02/26/2012 10:57 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
They're worried about the idiot that builds a one-off programmer for use
in production, and doesn't test it thoroughly, and then destroys
hundreds or thousands of chips.
And yes, that *does* happen. I've seen the evidence of it on two
different occasions. And yes, the people involved did try to return the
chips and claim that they were defective.
Tony Duell
wrote:
I do wonder just how big a problem
this would be...
Good hobbyists are goign to be honest, and if they damage the chip are
goign to say 'Oh d*mn' and go and buy another one.
OK, there may be soem who try to return the chip for a free replacement,
but the total number of chips inovlved is going to be fairly small (as a
fraction of the totla production of said ICs). Hobbyists tend to use 1 or
2 ICs, not 1 or 2 thousand.
The way to make sure I program in correctly is to
publsih the
programmign algorithm. Then I will follow that,.
Sure, but they're not worried
about *you*. They're worried about some
random idiot, who *claims* to have followed the published algorithm, but
somehow screwed up, and then wants to return an entire lot of EPROMs
that he claims are of defective manufacture.