Hi, The screen on my HD-100 controller went blank today. It appears to turn on as it should but the screen has nothing on it. The spindle can home and be moved with the buttons but does not show on the HD-100. Any ideas of what's wrong. I have cycled the power, checked, cleaned the plug ends and inspected the control box. Did not see any problems. The controller is nearly one year old and has always worked well.  Thanks.

Hehe - Guess I shouldn't be surprised you know as much about web protocols as you do CNC machining.

All above my head, but I'd love for the forum to keep existing. Would be a shame to lose this pool of knowledge, as well as future contributions.

Thanks for all you do!

what i 'can' do is move it over to a shared IP.  it's on a dedicated one, currently.  I asked as it's easier to just wipe it than t pack it up and move- but- either is doable.  I paid $6 for IP's years ago, and.... the six series are all but depleted- the newer ones are hex and in theory won't ever deplete... the IPv6's are worth a LOT more than $6, now...  a domain name is linked to an IP address and that's how it knows where to send you when you type the name in the address bar- if i swap the IP for a shared one, it'll ultimately get you back to the forum- but it'll take time to propagate through all the DNS servers.  the TTL for the IP is set to three months, currently- which means the DNS servers check back in every 3 months to see if anything has changed.  the first thing is to change that to 5 minutes- and in theory the longest it'll take for a DNS server to re-adjust with the shared IP is 3 months and 5 minutes.  there may be issues with caches, as some ISPs like to cache lots of stuff so it appears your pages load faster through that provider- and it can sometimes be 'grippy'--- which means i'll have to introduce some 'cache busters' which is tricky business.  but again, doable. 

if the forum is being used then it can stay and that'll be fine... i can just move to a shared IP... but that takes work and time to do, which i'm a bit short on... at least currently... but doesn't mean i'll always be short on... and nothing has to happen RIGHT NOW... i just have a site i'd like to build on a dedicated IP so when that site3 is ready to launch will dictate when this one now moves.

I disagree! I think it's a useful forum. Unfortunately you seem to be the only one who bothers to respond, but as the amount of Phantom owners grows, I'd expect traffic to pick up.

Anyway you can change the IP? DNS? (don't know how it all works).

Can you give it to Phantom to host and manage?

I don't see much need for this page, anymore... does anyone disagree?  Two posts, or so, this year.  I'd like to recycle the IPv6 address- which are in short supply.