richards
04-06-2006, 10:04 AM
If you're using a wireless adapter and a spindle, throw out one or the other.
After spending another $500 installing a line reactor, a load reactor, two zero-phase reactors and an EMI filter to fix the electronic noise problem on my spindle - and then still having the same sporadic glitches that I've been fighting for nine months, I finally discovered that the $45 wireless adapter was causing the problem. With the computer connected via CAT-5 cable, everything is working fine.
(I should have suspected the wireless card long ago. The icon at the bottom of the screen regularly flashed red, meaning the the connection was lost. Needless to say, when I removed the wireless card, I also removed every program on that computer except the Shopbot control program. Right now it is a one-program machine and it will stay that way.)
After spending another $500 installing a line reactor, a load reactor, two zero-phase reactors and an EMI filter to fix the electronic noise problem on my spindle - and then still having the same sporadic glitches that I've been fighting for nine months, I finally discovered that the $45 wireless adapter was causing the problem. With the computer connected via CAT-5 cable, everything is working fine.
(I should have suspected the wireless card long ago. The icon at the bottom of the screen regularly flashed red, meaning the the connection was lost. Needless to say, when I removed the wireless card, I also removed every program on that computer except the Shopbot control program. Right now it is a one-program machine and it will stay that way.)