SOIC8 SOP8 Clip DIP8 for in-circuit programming For EEPROM 93CXX/25CXX/24CXX on ZIP USB Programmer TL866 EZP2010 RT809H CH341A straight clip

I like this thing better than my previous clip by Pomona, as it feels like it will be less likely to break (like the Pomona did).

Um, the wires were soldered onto the clip backwards. I bought this and a CH341a programmer to flash the BIOS in my laptop in circuit. Since I have never done it, I spent a lot time trying to figure out why I couldn't read or write from/to my w25q64fv BIOS chip on the motherboard. I spent a lot time trying different versions of the software and troubleshooting inconsistencies there. I thought perhaps it wasn't making a good connection to the BIOS or wasn't plugged into the programmer correctly. After spending about 6 hours screwing around with the actual programmer, I started to wonder if there was something wrong with the clip or how it was wired. When I started examining how the ribbon cable connects to the IDC connector, I realized that the red wire was connected to pin 1 (which makes sense), but on the clip side, it was pin 4 or pin 8 (depending on which way it was connected to the chip). After desoldering and swapping all of the wires to the opposite clip, everything worked wonderfully. I can't imagine how many of these were sold like this and people assumed something else was the issue and gave up. I will say, on the flip side, I learned way more about this stuff than I would have if it all just worked out of the box.

Works fine but it would be nice if the pins were numbered...

Works great. Make sure to mark pin one on the clip so you dont accidentally flip it around

Think I spend at least two hours trying to make this work. Only time when it clipped and write the memory was after de-soldering the IC.

This was wired incorrectly. I was able to correct it but would have preferred that is was assembled correctly from the factory.