Originally Posted by
RCaffin
It's flaky though largely because it runs under WIndows and all the background stuff going on means if you haven't had problems, you will.
I will respectfully disagree. I find it quite stable IF treated properly.
WXP, Mach3 .062, ESS, BoBs, ...
But the PC is NOT on any network, is NOT running any unnecessary background tasks, and the whole thing is well-grounded. I can run for 8 hours without any problems at all, while holding tolerances of microns.
Yes, Mach3 has some internal unpatchable bugs - design faults actually. But if you don't nest the subroutines too deeply, and take care with a couple of other g-code instructions, it runs for production use.
Cheers
Roger
PS: snoozing while running is easy: I have a good chair. I do an auto-wake-up when the program ends.