John

Thank you once again for the benifit of you experience.

It seems to me that there is little wrong with either the machines or Mach3, the weak link is the PC. Is it not possible to design a dedicated PC in a box that runs Mach3 and talks correctly to the machine. Ecat has made some usefull suggestions and Robin Hewitt has clearly trod this path before.

I think it is time for me to stand back for a while and see if we can put a team together.

Geoff Vaizey