Re: Why AP mount don't have a USB port?
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Roland Christen
We have built-in safe limits in the 1600 that you can set to prevent collision of scope against the mount.
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From: Joe Zeglinski <J.Zeglinski@...> To: ap-gto <ap-gto@...> Sent: Fri, Oct 19, 2012 9:02 am Subject: [ap-gto] Re: Why AP mount don't have a USB port? Pete, You touched on another interesting point. At the risk of going OT here, while you are controlling your mount “remotely from your house”, as you say, HOW do you guarantee that your USB/Serial port commands don’t crash the telescope into the pier? Do you only observe toward the west, post meridian flip? Until someone solves that, with a really nifty “collision avoidance” robotic feature in the controller, or associated planetarium program, I worry about using the control ports remotely. Joe From: Pete Su Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 9:49 AM To: ap-gto@... Subject: Re: [ap-gto] Re: Why AP mount don't have a USB port? I think people get overly enamored of "modular" solutions. Often these things just introduce complexity that no one wants to support use cases that only a few people care about. We are probably better served to have the control box on the mount use an interface that is widely adopted and/or easy to support. Personally I like the idea of network control. Unless I'm actually looking through the telescope what I want to do is sit in the house and keep and eye on things remotely. Having the thing be on my local network at home is by far the easiest way to implement this. Pete ------------------------------------ To UNSUBSCRIBE, or for general information on the ap-gto list see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ap-gtoYahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To UNSUBSCRIBE, or for general information on the ap-gto list see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ap-gtoYahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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