Hi Mark,
Okay I can't let it lie and I went out to the shed and braved the cold.
SPindle talker fired up on my machine after installing the missing OCX file.
When I started spindle talker I could once again start the unit spinning, but it failed to do any other commands. In one instance the PC crashed and rebooted.
I think I have answered my question about versions. On the dongle is a G, so I have a G version I suspect.
BK,
I think you are on the right path with the F and G versions causing different output. I suspect the driver written for each unit is different in some way and the ST program is not able to receive feedback from the spindle. I am interested in seeing if you get it working when you get your F dongle.
I wonder if someone could post the driver for the F version on this site. I will download and update my driver with it and see if this fixes the issues.
BK, my capture is shown above in my previous posts so i'm not sure if it is similar to yours
/Michael