Charlie, I built the RCD programmer version # 2.3 and it has an extra capacitor on the board to eliminate the problems he is having.. In fact, before it will program a pic, it says, "charging the capacitor" and then it goes into programming mode.. It hasn't failed me yet.. always provides the 13 volts needed. The programmer works flawlessly.

Have you made a board design yet for the 12f683 chips? I'm getting kinda anxious to build it and test it. Maybe Rob has already made a PCB, I don't know...been offline for awhile and missed all the pm's and posts. Also, have you added the test function back into the program? Haven't heard from Nyemi since he posted his code. I knew he was working on doing it for the 16f628 pic. I am still using his code without the test features.. My engines start easily and run fine with it.

John