Hello everybody. My name is Daren & I'm posting this - my very first post - from my home in western Canada.

First of all, let me say thank you very much to Brady, Gary, David & many others for all the fabulous info you have shared with the rest of us clawing our way up the learning curve. I really admire your commitment to sharing your wisdom, as well as your creativeness & workmanship. I have learned more than just SB stuff from you guys here.

About me. I've had a used, dual-Z, 4x8, PRTalpha for a couple of years, but until recently I haven't been able to spend any real 'quality' time with her. After reading (and re-reading) through this forum for many months (I'm a slow learner) I have started working on my first (and very much desired) vacuum table. I always planned on posting something on the forum someday, it's just that until recently I didn't feel like I understood enough SB terminology to say anything relevant. A few weeks ago I was further inspired by the sense of helpfulness you guys provide in a short Q & A phone call to David about his table design. Now that I've broken the ice here, I hope to be able to do the same as you some day.

I currently have two, 240V, LH7123 vac motors that I'd like to build into a black box like Gary's. I'm not sure yet whether to build the box big enough to possibly expand it up to four motors later, and if I should include a series/parallel valve. I plan on cutting sheet goods in various sizes as well as solid wood parts & I'd appreciate your feedback.

My questions for Gary are:
1) Would you share (or sell me) your black vac box design? I have recently installed eCabs & the SB link trial version, but I have not purchased it. It looks good, but I'm waiting to get more fluent with the SB & eCabs before I invest any more money. I would however gladly accept it from you in eCabs file format (and decipher it from there) should you decide to share it with me.

2) I have read your previous vac motor setup (where you had 2 motors setup with a valve that would switch between series & parallel). But I'm not sure about this black box design. It seems to me like you are only running it in parallel mode. Is that correct?

3) I'm not clear how the integrated check valve works. Could you please explain to me how it operates?

Cheers from frosty Edmonton!
PS. A big thank you also goes out to the ShopBot staff & management who welcomed me with free support when I first called them with my question of "how the heck do I get this to connect with my computer?" This is definitely a business worth supporting.