I have been keeping up with this thread today and I also have the VT200. I was having trouble using temp mode and I kept looking at the escribe device monitor and this thread thinking that my VT200 would kick the bucket too, but I did notice that the VT200 has the 510 grounded and the chassis grounded. Upon further inspection I noticed the chassis screws still had roughly 2 complete turns before being full seated. upon fully seating them all fluctuation in the atty and resistance stabilized using ni200 Herakles coils. I also put the latest firmware on it and cut the preheat down too 80w, 3.1 punch with 1 sec duration. currently running at .23 ohms cold @ 47.5w 520F. here is a screen shot of what the mod is doing. maybe it will or could help you out.