Hmm, I've not tried the OVMS lately, but I recently used the PICkit 2 to program a 5 V PIC board that was 4 times as big. When you use the official Microchip PICkit software on Windows, it detects the PIC model number and automatically selects the voltage, then powers the board while programming. It's not production quality power for reliable programming, but it should work. Is there some special reason why the PICkit 2 cannot power the OVMS V2 board? I recommend checking all of the settings on your PICkit software. Brian Willoughby Sound Consulting On Oct 22, 2013, at 14:29, Tom Saxton wrote:
I'm not able to program the V2 board with the PICkit2 unless the board plugged into the car to get 12V power, so I'd recommend the PICKit3, which I'm assuming doesn't have this issue.
I need to either build a cable to power the OVMS from a power supply or order the PICKit3 from Fasttech. For now, my laptop is living in the Roadster's passenger seat while I've been doing some work on the charge time predictor.
Tom