{"id":92,"date":"2009-05-13T08:58:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T13:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/performancetrends.com\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2009-05-13T08:58:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T13:58:29","slug":"old-cam-profiler-it-can-be-brought-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/performancetrends.com\/blog\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Old Cam Profiler?, it can be Brought Back to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has had the experience of buying an electronics\u00a0product which\u00a0is now obsolete or the company has gone out of business.\u00a0 <!--more-->What can you do when this happens? \u00a0Well if you have a Cam Doctor cam measuring system\u00a0(cam profiler) you do have an option.\u00a0 Performance Trends can retro fit your system with new components to bring it back to life.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you have a system that has been working for 10 to 20 years. Then one day it is no longer working.\u00a0 Or with the Cam Dr, which only works on old DOS computers, you can no longer find one of these old DOS computers. \u00a0The last thing you want to do is throw it out and buy a new <a title=\"Cam Test Stand\" href=\"http:\/\/performancetrends.com\/cam_test_stand.htm\" target=\"_self\">cam profiler<\/a>. You can save yourself thousands of dollars if you use some of the old parts and just buy Performance Trends items that will get it up and running again.<\/p>\n<p>A Cam Dr Retrofit Kit would include some <a title=\"Cam Test Stand\" href=\"http:\/\/performancetrends.com\/cam_test_stand.htm\" target=\"_self\">electronics<\/a> to read your existing lift and rotation sensors, and new Windows software (<a title=\"Cam Analyzer\" href=\"http:\/\/performancetrends.com\/ca20.htm\" target=\"_self\">Cam Analyzer<\/a>) to read these sensors.\u00a0 The electronics typically can be read with a serial port (com port), or through a USB port with a USB-Com adapter.\u00a0 So you can now use most any new Windows computer, even a laptop.\u00a0 And with the updated software, you get an easier mouse driven interface, with many more analysis features, and\u00a0printouts of graphs and reports on most any new printer, even color.\u00a0 That is one HUGE improvement over being tied to some old DOS computer.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 384px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/performancetrends.com\/ca20.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cam Analyzer\" src=\"http:\/\/performancetrends.com\/images\/ca-main.gif\" alt=\"Cam Analyzer\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cam Analyzer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you are interested in <a title=\"Retro Fit Prices\" href=\"http:\/\/performancetrends.com\/prices.htm#Cam_Test_Stand_Prices\" target=\"_self\">Retro Fit Prices<\/a> follow the link and scroll down to &#8220;Cam Dr. Retro Fit Kit&#8221; or you can give us a call at 248-473-9230 if you have other needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has had the experience of buying an electronics\u00a0product which\u00a0is now obsolete or the company has gone out of business.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[51,50,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/performancetrends.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/performancetrends.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/performancetrends.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performancetrends.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performancetrends.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/performancetrends.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/performancetrends.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/performancetrends.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performancetrends.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performancetrends.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}