They don't call them bugs for nothing...
-Al

> -----Original Message-----
> Michael J. Cook
> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 8:32 PM
> To: MAPUG
> Subject: [M]: Pictorview - Oh What a Tangle Web We Weave
>
>
> I was having intermittent Pictorview lock ups when I also ran ECU
> to control the
> telescope. After checking most things like COM port conflicts
> and the like, I
> noticed inside of the 216XT RJ11 port for the RS232 connection
> was a small web
> material from a spider or some other insect. Beats me how it
> managed to squeeze
> by the RJ11 jack, but it did. I guess the web was conductive
> enough to cause
> some intermittent signal "shorting".
>
> --
> Michael J. Cook
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