Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Hi I'm new

> I've seen this so many times over the years using them. My favorite
> is when (on the average of once a year, maybe less), they
> inexplicably "take off", either the table rapids (700 ipm) all the
> way to one side until it bangs a physical limit, and the machine must
> be powered down, the screw turned by hand to get it off, or better
> yet, on occasion, the head likes to ram all the way down, full speed
> until it slams a vice (luckily it hasn't hit the table yet). We don't
> even bother to call in a tech anymore. We just "reboot" the machine
> and it goes for months withour doing this again.
>
> Well, that's my experience with Windows based controls. Just when you
> think they are "rock solid" stable, you walk away and WHAM!
>
> We are about due for a crash, they've been running too quietly lately.

>From my experience with Windows of various generations, I would say

that this problem is Windows based, not your specialized software. I have
used Win 2000 for a number of years now, on a number of boxes and it
routinely seems to go nutz every month or so [insert Tampon joke here]
hiding things and changing things around for no known reason. Unlike
real life though, a reboot sometimes works.