Awl --
Each year, Electornic Drives and Controls, in Parsippany, NJ (973 428 0500) sends me a 2' x 3' wall calendar around Xmas, which I actually put on a wall, and use. It won't win any art awards, but it's nice enough.
I give this company a yearly shout-out, cuz they got me out of what was proly a $10,000 jam, for about $200 bucks, and a few trips to NJ.
As some may know, I fried my Fadal's regenerative resistor so bad it shot up flames and charred the effing ceiling -- from not changing the voltage taps on the transformer from 208 to 240when the machine was moved, and THEN using a shitty rpc, which supplied 270 to the wild leg -- goodgawd....
So, they mucked around with it for a week, said nothing was really wrong with it that they could see, altho they did warn that Fadal had some proprietary stuff in that drive. I'm sure in the process of mucking around, they wound up resetting sumpn or other, which got it working again.
Inyway, I finally took it home, installed it, and with heart in mouth, found that it worked! And goddamm, it's been working ever since. I'm sure that my lying on the floor in the receptionists area, crying in a heap, affected the price they charged -- they done me a real solid.
So, iffin you need drive-type stuff repaired, these are good honest knowledgeable people. It will help if you can drive to NJ and cry in their office.....
Oh, and I replaced the regen resistor with cupla $2 heating elements (also from NJ), of approx the same resistance. Works like a charm.
Soon, tho, I'm sure my luck is going to run out. Well, ackshooly, it already did: some muthafucka walked off with my trust fund.....