Microchip 50% off trade-in on Pickit2 ICD2 Promate II

[wilfred]

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[SteveyG]

Their wording is slightly ambiguous. If I trade in a PICkit2, can I get 50% off a PM3?

[wraper]

Their wording is slightly ambiguous. If I trade in a PICkit2, can I get 50% off a PM3?

no

[hamdi.tn]

i like PK2 and i will not buy PK3 even with 90% discount , i don't like that crap

[AndyC_772]

It isn't. I've used mine for several years, personally and professionally, on a range of 8, 16 and 32 bit devices. No trouble with it at all.

[hamdi.tn]

for the same reasons Dave talked about in his review, i used and i still use a PK2 in my lab and i used a PK3 in my previous job, so used them both extensively and PK2 is better in every aspect. watch the video Dave will explain why better than me   

[hamdi.tn]

to be fair, the PK3 have a standalone application and detect the chip and the power check feature, but you still have to update firmware when you change pic family and no UART tool , and a limited signal analyser compared to PK2 and what dave didn't talked about in the review is that PK2 can program SPI and I2C eeprom as well, i used it many times for that too.
Yes i still use 18 and 16 family for higher application i use stm32 not microchip so PK2 is ok for what i need.

[Warhawk]

I wish I could use my ICD2 with the new environment... I have a heap of PICs but MPlabX & missing opensource C compiler & super shitty debugger (got PK2 and PK3) were the reasons why I switchted to Cortex wherever I can.