I bought one of these kits for the fun of it to see how well it worked.
When it arrived this morning I could see that the seller knows how to package ESD sensitive components
Take a look at the pictures. Likely the chip is OK but this poor thing was surrounded by polystyrene foam, a polythene bag and then polythene bubble wrap. If the chip was very ESD sensitive it wouldn't stand much of a chance
Very different to the days of early FET's that had shorting rings on their leads and blew if you so much as breathed on them
I will get round to building this kit sometime but thanks for the info on the data file needed for the chip. Odd that it is not mentioned in the listing. Anyone without a suitable programmer will be well and truly stuffed.
Aurora