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by "drip feed" do you mean DNC???
bobcad has never offered any DNC.hartmann,,,,

using MCam in a small shop, is like entering a nascar evenet witha rolls royce, aint going to happen dude,so find some thing that takes minutes to understand, not years,
bobcad is a good start,

if your any where near phoenix, i'll give it a shot,
call hartmann, at 602-278-1765
the port that you go online with is basicly just a 232 connection, as it only sends and recieves,,,good luck...

m'cam is not good sw for the massses, BOBcad out sells it 10 to 1.
my x3 never worked from the day i it put it on my system,so i can't use it if i wanted to if you over payed fro it, the local...

out here in phoenix, some ofthe CC's offer CNC related courses,
if you can find any manual machine work, the experience you'll gain, will be helpfull when you do find a way to acquire CNC knowledge.

i've used bobcad for about 10 years and once i pasted the learn'n stages i have been very satisfied with it. i was a manual draftman and CNC /manual machinist before cad-cam came on the market, so i...

if the motor has a drag ob it , it maybe over heating and tripping the heat contacts inside the motor , the bearig between the motor v-drive may be corruptand ausing the drag,, thats just my take, it...

the chips in the mill have date codes on them, but they are probably way older than any PC, so con sider what heat does to chips and your answer maybe bad I/O chips or they may be CMOS chips, even...

a bad cable would be too obvious, a bad chip(ACIA) would be a better quest,
or a bad I/O chip,how to test them is a different story, hartmann,,,

my BOO-V has the same exact story,used a 386 for 10 yrs and then the 386 died and i never found the pc back up battery, and i still can't get a connection wih my new pen-III
not a nibble, i think...

i never saw your cap calculation, but iget the feel'n your truy'n to usea static power supply to do what rotory supply will do > sorry i'm no help,,,hartmann,