Im curious to see if this EPROM burner circuitboard would work to burn a SST 27SF512 Chip. What do you think?
http://www.ecrater.com/p/5993530/ser...crocontrollers#

 

It will not work support for I2C Bus EEPROM
2401, 2402, 2404, 2408, 2416
2432, 2464, 2465, 24128, 24256, 24512
24325, 24645
24C01, 24C02, 24C04, 24C08, 24C16
24C32, 24C64, 24C65, 24C128, 24C256, 24C512
24C325, 24C645
24LC01, 24LC02, 24LC04, 24LC08, 24LC16
24LC32, 24LC64, 24LC65, 24LC128, 24LC256, 24LC512
24LC325, 24LC645

 

First, it wont program a conventional prom chip, its made to program PIC microcontrollers which just use a serial i2c connection. You need a more conventional eprom programmer that programs the chip in a parallel mode.
You should avoid similar "looking" programmers anyhow, that one looks like it uses a serial port connection. Try to only buy peripherals that use USB interface. USB to serial converters are real hit-or-miss and a PITA. Its very hard to find laptops with serial ports, and even getting harder to get a desktop PC with them. Parallel ports are even worse.
Last year during a computer upgrade I bought a real high-end motherboard that includes a parallel port. I was hoping to be able to use my Xtronics Pocket Programmer II a little longer before having to drop the cash for a usb programmer. I was really disgusted later to find out that even though the motherboard has a parallel port, windows7 will not allow software to have direct hardware access to the port.
Do yourself a favor and only buy USB interface stuff, parallel and serial ports are a dead end.

 

Any suggestions, other than the Moates programmer?

 

The moates is priced right if you are wanting to do uv erasable as well you will need more applied power. The other choice is The pocket programmer 3 and I'm sure williams have something.

http://secure.transtronics.com/osc/p...roducts_id/621

 

My next programmer will be a moates. But my second choice would be a pocket programmer 3 usb(chevy86's link above). Aparently with the Moates programmer you can access the programmer right through tunerpro, certainly a nice feature.

There are a lot of cheap chinese programmers on ebay, i have read about a lot of issues with them on other forums (avoid those).

 

thats why Im asking and posting these pictures. I wanna get feed back before I buy something.

 

Yup. Price wise, Moates hands down. Far cheaper than 2 nice crispy hundred dollar bills.

 

What about this Willem Programmer. Will this work?

 

when i was getting into it, i looked around at some of the other chip burners.
but with some of the problems i was finding with offshore knockoffs, i decided to go with Moates. even though i probably could have saved some money, i have no regrets.

Punisher454, have you thought about dual booting on your new computer?

 

You'll be happier with the Moates BURN2, than any other programmer.

As I said in the PM, I've used two different Willems programmers and use my BURN2 exclusively now. I have my Willems GQ-3X sitting on my test bench, but if I need to read or program an (automotive) EPROM, I go to my tuning bag and grab my BURN2.

For anyone else reading this, the last programmer pictured is what is called a "Dual Power", that requires a printer (LPT) port, which no laptops that I'm aware of for the last 8 years or so have had, and are pretty scarce on desktop computers as well.