I'm a little hesitant too, but at $4 apiece for IB16 and OV16 what the heck. Running under load and pulling them, then reinserting doesn't seem to phase them. I even tried swapping them in the bases. Blonde moment on that as the IB16 wiring ended up applying 24v+ to the sink side of the OV16. Immediate dead silence. No smoke or sparks though which is usually a good sign. The blissful silence was broken by my wife. Why do you need my laptop? Yours is faster than mine. (It makes her feel better about not having the newer laptop, actually she never turns hers off so it was faster for me.)
When the wood furnace is running full throttle and it's 2 deg F outside, this probably Definately wasn't a good time for this. It trashed the config for the 1747-SN on the 5/04 and faulted everything. After about 20 minutes of thinking I just fried $20 worth of hardware, I figured it out. For whatever reason it cleared the G file and after setting that back I was off and running again.
These little buggers appear to be pretty hardy. The only thing it affected was the G file. My PayPal account was not harmed.
I suppose for this type of fault, once the error is corrected, one could have the bits moved into the G file by the program and not have to go offline to do a download???
Next thought is can you edit a G file online? Guess I'll know in the morning when I get home.