erasing chip with willem GQ-4X burner/reader

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2inil8
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erasing chip with willem GQ-4X burner/reader

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I bought a chip from jaycar its an AMTEL AT27C256R supposed to be eraseable
but i cant get it to erase.I do have the 9v adaptor as im aware it needs 12v to erase
is there something im missing here? :think:
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AT27C256R is a one time programmable eprom so can only use it once
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ah that sucks i think i will pay them a visit tomorrow,they were ment to be erasable
they did have uv erasable eproms but ran out of stock and got these in.
whats a good chip that you can electronically erase that you would reccomend?
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29c in whatever size you can get :D
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Got another question im trying to read a vs v8 hsv auto memcal
and i cant read it tried selcting device 27c512 and get a bunch of 0s
seem to read the 128 vn/vp memcals ok.