Re: Interesting Mach2 Behavior on Cloudy Nights
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Roland Christen
oops, I see you have VP02-08 already.
Rolando
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From: Roland Christen via groups.io <chris1011@...> To: main@ap-gto.groups.io <main@ap-gto.groups.io> Sent: Thu, Dec 24, 2020 7:58 pm Subject: Re: [ap-gto] Interesting Mach2 Behavior on Cloudy Nights So a couple of things would be good to know:
1) the serial number of the mount
2) the direction of the oscillation (most likely RA I'm guessing)
You can send this to my e-mail direct and we can go from there: chris1011@...
I'll be leaving for Christmas eve dinner in a few minutes, and tomorrow we are not here, but I will get back to you first thing Monday. We'll get it sorted out. Probably a simple setting and also you may want to load the latest version P02-08 into the CP5.
Roland Christen
Astro-Physics Inc.
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From: deonb <deonb@...> To: main@ap-gto.groups.io Sent: Thu, Dec 24, 2020 7:10 pm Subject: Re: [ap-gto] Interesting Mach2 Behavior on Cloudy Nights On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 08:20 AM, Roland Christen wrote:
I'm the dope who originally posted this on CN :). I wasn't specifically posting it as a problem. It was more like a "hey cool, this mount can track for 10 minutes at 2800mm without guiding!", and "here's what I did" post. I loaded more counterweights than the specs of the mount originally so I didn't think there was anything to fix. I do now... It seems that there is a some positions that if I slew my mount there, it goes into an infinite "oscillation" mode. I can physically see the scope move back-and-forth a few millimeters about once a second, and it will keep doing that even if I stop tracking completely. It stops though if I park the mount in that position. I'm running directly through the ASCOM driver v5.30.10 connecting via USB. (I'm still learning APCC). The mount firmware is VCP5-P02-08. The encoder firmware is A02-08. -- Roland Christen Astro-Physics -- Roland Christen Astro-Physics
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