oh okay. actually it looked to me as you directly connected it.
i have had no luck in blowing up a PIC. once one got a bit hot but i think the temperature didnt rise to the "burn your fingers and transfer the prints to the PIC" temperature :lol: i had a bit of bad luck once when i inserted the PIC backwards in a P16PRO40 programmer. the programmer doesnt works now :lol:
Meaby the transistor switching on the Vdd got overloaded and burned out.
I put in the ICSP cable backward a cuple of times so it got 13V on RB7.Luckuly it cant suply more than 1 mA of it so the internal didodes protected it.
My mom once killed an PIC whith ESD.Wearing wool and in winter are the perfect condidtons for staric to develop.Then i cont program it and i toght there is somting wrong whith the programer.But wen i replaced it whith an new PIC it worked.
Well good tweezers are a key to save removal of IC's :lol: I used screwdriver technique before but I damaged some IC's, but with good tweezers I damaged none