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From: Joey.G on 7 Oct 2009 19:17
Hi All in embedded land,

It's time for us to upgrade our universal programmer after our very,
very old BP programmer died. Due to budget restrictions we are now
looking at competitively priced XELTEK programmers.

http://www.xeltek.com/

Specifically the SuperPro SP5004G (4head) and SP5000 (head)

We program 50k+ per annum through the programmer (all sorts of
micro's a memory)

QUESTIONS
==========
Q1
Does anyone have any experiences they can share regarding programmers
from XELTEK.

And I would be extremely interested if you had experiences with
SuperPro SP5004G and SP5000 programmers.

Q2
Was Xeltek a split of from HiLo Systems many years ago

Q3
How would you compare Xeltek and HiLo?

Q4
Apart from Hi Lo and BP are there any other heavly duty medium size
programmers you suggest/ recommend.


Thanks in Advance
Joe

From: cassiope on 8 Oct 2009 13:04
On Oct 7, 4:17 pm, "Joey.G" <jjoey.g...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All in embedded land,
>
> It's time for us to upgrade our universal programmer after our very,
> very old BP programmer died.  Due to budget restrictions we  are now
> looking at competitively priced XELTEK programmers.
>
> http://www.xeltek.com/
>
> Specifically the SuperPro SP5004G (4head) and SP5000 (head)
>
> We program 50k+ per annum through the programmer  (all sorts of
> micro's a memory)
>
> QUESTIONS
> ==========
> Q1
> Does anyone have any experiences they can share regarding programmers
> from XELTEK.
>
> And I would be extremely interested if you  had experiences with
> SuperPro SP5004G and SP5000 programmers.
>
> Q2
> Was Xeltek a split of from  HiLo Systems many years ago
>
> Q3
> How would you compare Xeltek and HiLo?
>
> Q4
> Apart from Hi Lo and BP  are there any other heavly duty medium size
> programmers you suggest/ recommend.
>
> Thanks in Advance
> Joe

This is somewhat old ... but a Xeltek SuperPro burner failed with some
device types (GALs). On discussing the problem with Xeltek, it became
clear that that burner didn't follow the part spec. It worked "most
of the time", but if you got a batch of parts near the limits, it
wouldn't program properly. Xeltek refused to fix the(ir) problem. We
got a burner from Tribal, which worked very well - but I don't know if
they are still in business, nor if they produce the kind of burner you
need.

Good luck!
From: Joey.G on 8 Oct 2009 22:42
Thanks for your information
Which Xeltek programmer did you use? 3000?

And how long ago was the issue? recently or more than a few years?

Regs
Joe
>
> This is somewhat old ... but aXeltekSuperPro burner failed with some
> device types (GALs).  On discussing the problem withXeltek, it became
> clear that that burner didn't follow the part spec.  It worked "most
> of the time", but if you got a batch of parts near the limits, it
> wouldn't program properly.  Xeltek refused to fix the(ir) problem.  We
> got a burner from Tribal, which worked very well - but I don't know if
> they are still in business, nor if they produce the kind of burner you
> need.
>
> Good luck!

From: cassiope on 9 Oct 2009 12:50
On Oct 8, 7:42 pm, "Joey.G" <jjoey.g...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your information
> Which Xeltek programmer did you use?  3000?
>
> And how long ago was the issue?  recently or more than a few years?
>
> Regs
> Joe
>
>
>
> > This is somewhat old ... but aXeltekSuperPro burner failed with some
> > device types (GALs).  On discussing the problem withXeltek, it became
> > clear that that burner didn't follow the part spec.  It worked "most
> > of the time", but if you got a batch of parts near the limits, it
> > wouldn't program properly.  Xeltek refused to fix the(ir) problem.  We
> > got a burner from Tribal, which worked very well - but I don't know if
> > they are still in business, nor if they produce the kind of burner you
> > need.
>
> > Good luck!

More. Just a thought that you might query Xeltek to see if they now
follow
the semiconductor specs.
From: Joey.G on 11 Oct 2009 17:57
Yes, I get the hint... your suggesting they don't follow the mfg'ers
programming spec or get them qualified by the mfg'er.

Joe

On Oct 10, 3:50 am, cassiope <f...(a)u.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Oct 8, 7:42 pm, "Joey.G" <jjoey.g...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Thanks for your information
> > WhichXeltekprogrammer did you use?  3000?
>
> > And how long ago was the issue?  recently or more than a few years?
>
> > Regs
> > Joe
>
> > > This is somewhat old ... but aXeltekSuperPro burner failed with some
> > > device types (GALs).  On discussing the problem withXeltek, it became
> > > clear that that burner didn't follow the part spec.  It worked "most
> > > of the time", but if you got a batch of parts near the limits, it
> > > wouldn't program properly.  Xeltekrefused to fix the(ir) problem.  We
> > > got a burner from Tribal, which worked very well - but I don't know if
> > > they are still in business, nor if they produce the kind of burner you
> > > need.
>
> > > Good luck!
>
> More.  Just a thought that you might queryXeltekto see if they now
> follow
> the semiconductor specs.

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