I do not have park 5 either on my keypad from July 2009, this was made well before park 4 & 5 as well as APCC different versions came out. I do see park 4 on my screen which followed the download of

I think the best thing to do is Resume From Last Parked. If I've loosened the clutches, I use a park position that puts the CWT shaft and the OTA both horizontal. These are 1 (obsolete), 4, and 5. I'm

Luca Marinelli, How do you set your Telescope Sync Behavior in SGP? I am using Target Offset.

I have faith in the cable being the problem. I'll buy Chris a beer if it isnt.

Thanks Roland. Looks like I'll have the new Y cable Friday, so I'll test it out this weekend. Fingers crossed.

Thanks Ray. Yes, I am really bummed to not have the scope set up tonight while it is a very clear night (except for the moon) here in San Diego. We are having concrete work done and I set up my

Mike, I received an email from Roland telling me to use Park 3, 2 and 5. So I will try that. I think I generally only used “resume from park” on the initial startup. Initially that was Park 1,

You must have an old version of the mount. For several years now we include reference marks on the side of the axis in 4 places on each axis. Allows easy mechanical alignment. You can make your own

Roland, A follow up question: There is no Park 5 available in my Park list. I'm assuming this means I need to update the Keypad software? The DEC and RA axis reference marks...all I remember seeing

The pier flip failed because an appropriate meridian delay was not set, so the slew went to the same pier side. In fact, your log does not indicate any meridian delay offsets were being set, so are

Good point on unchecking the Limit to Meridian button. That was not the issue this time, but might have caused an issue some other time. In this case the flip started fine, but SGP received a slew

Hi Luca. I have used those exact same settings. That is why I have 14 minutes set as my flip offset. I have checked the box for CW up slews with West limits so that it can track CW past the

In the APCC window, uncheck limit to Meridian or the meridian limits you setup are ignored by APCC. You may then have a situation were SGP has no time to execute the flip before the mount stops

I don’t doubt that you are having meridian flip related sequence failures. However, I will offer the datapoint that I am using SGP 4 v680 with both an AP 1100 and Mach2 without any meridian flip

Just to be clear, after you send the mount to Park3, adjust the RA and Dec axes manually by loosening the clutches and moving the axes to the Park 3 reference marks by hand, not via the keypad

Nice. Still dream of an 8" Eagle for the 1100. 😉

I had to take my mount down today, but I have East and West Limits unchecked and I have my Flip offset set at 14 minutes. In SGP I have it set to flip at 1 minute past the meridian. Essentially, I

The Eagle will hold it just fine. Rolando

Using your keypad only (no other program attached to the mount) I would test the parks this way: 1) level the mount as best you can. It does not need to be perfect 2) send the mount to Park3 and

I don't have any limits set, so I can't address those possible issues. --- Mike