i was just wondering about when you said cost of gold was an issue to your sensor, why can't you use some sort of inner material like carbon fiber or glassfiber and just use a thinner tube of gold outisde of the composite, carbon fiber conducts electricity and glass fiber doesnt, wether that...
electricity is a funny thing in lots of matters and it can surely behave in wierd ways not allways expected of it dc or ac doesnt matter that much really. unexpected things can happen ini both of them if some things arent properly made. lets say you have the ship as ground and only have one wire...
i know from own experience with a nvidia 8600GTS i had issues with v5r19 sp4 or 5 cant remember wich one of these, but pre and post of that worked fine with that graphics card
using xp pro sp3
or u just have a card that might not work that good with catia, also check openGL settings might make...
then you need to find a tool that can see what ports are open and what program uses them so you will be able to open them up thruu firewall, i dont have catia available at the moment so i cant check. tool for xp is tcpview made by sysinternals(microsoft now) that tool if it works for 7 will show...