RCAP is frying the speed control on my car/ also software question

[photoscentric2]

I hooked up my rcap to my car as directed and blow three speed conrtols. I thinking that sense everything on the car is ultimately running through the speed control power then w/ the rcap the thing is drawing too much current. Also, I want to mod the software. Anybody kno if there's a student version of picbasic pro or another complier that will compiler this stuff. The ones that I run across all declare variables as dim instead of var. is there a C version of the rcap software

[SugarLandFlyer]

Do you have a separate battery hooked up to the RCAP?

[photoscentric2]

That's what I was gunna try next. Thanx sugar land flyer!!

[photoscentric2]

Is there any student (cheaper) versions of picbasic pro? Will the picbasic compiler version compile the rcap code? I have some experience with parallax basic from my internship but I'm used to C and C++. I'm having a really rough time converting this code to C so I can compile it with the software at school. I think that if I can get a compiler that will compile the rcap sftware then I can make the mods that I need to make.