Hi All, After a longish travel, my Mach-1 finally arrived to Poland yesterday and I was able to set it up in-house on the Baader hardwood tripod. First with just the cw bar attached to perform

First I thank all who have responded about this problem. It was gratifying to receive so much help. The problem apparently was a corrupted serial port driver. Why it decided to do that while I was

Hi Bill, My first attempt at HyperTerminal did not work out well. I'm sure that I did not do something right. Am going to try again after I finish updating the computer. It has not been connected to

Bill Bradford wrote: Bill is it too much trouble to jumper pin 2 to pin 3 and use Hyperterm to at least prove the computers serial port works ? Bill

Unfortunately, your right about the lack of knowledge in electronics retailers. When I bought the cables I had to tell the clerk what a serial cable was. He thought everything was USB. I made sure to

Reversing cables are also often configured male to female in terms of the plugs on each end. There is often no way to tell by looking at the cable which type you have. That is why we ended up

Hi Howard, The cables are regular serial cables and are connected male to female. They were not bought as a set. I used two 4 ft. cables just to get the extra length. But, I am going to get a single

Thanks, Marj. I have the two 4 ft. cables because my other choice was a single 25 foot cable. I bought them just before leaving to go imaging, so took what I could get at the time. But, that was

Hi Roland, I feel like a real dunce because I was imaging with a person who had TWO 1200's set up 30 ft. from me last night. Did not think of the obvious...too much linear thinking on my part.

Rolando, Thanks! I think I'll try upgrading my battery before I start messing with the worm gear adjustment. Do you think 35AH is big enough (just mount, no camera/dew heater)? If I still have

Hi Howard, I just got back from the Golden State Star Party and had a couple of great nights with my AP155 EDFS and the AP900 GTO CP3 (no 594 from early 2006). I finally managed to see all the

Two reversing or null modem cables hooked together can effectively make a single straight through cable. The cables would have only worked when hooked together in tandem, and could not possibly

Remember that the cables that you use MUST be the straight-thru type. We now sell 15' cables for the convenience of our customers (so you don't have to run all over town to find them). Marj

I tried both com ports on the mount and I am using a native serial port on my computer. I also tried to connect using another computer and had the same error message. My set up has two 4 ft long

hsielski@... writes: 35AH will give you about 35 hours of tracking and slewing. Rolando ************** Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient used cars.

hsielski@... writes: Those batteries don't last very long. What you need is a big marine battery from one of the big box stores. Cost is around $45 to $65, so it's not expensive. Reason why

bcbradford@... writes: If there is another AP mount in your area, you might try to see if your computer will talk to it. Rolando ************** Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL

I had the backlash setting in the hand controller set to zero, but like Rob G. it would happen only when I had my PC connected and had moved from PC control to hand controller control. I looked and

Based on your response, I just went and noticed my ASCOM had an RA backlash of setting of 15 seconds.  Could that be the cause in my case where the error happened after using PC control?   Rob

Dirk Last year I had a Meade 10" SCT on a 1200GTO mount. My set-up was very tail heavy with an STL-11000 camera, Pyxis rotator, TCFS focuser and IFW filter wheel. I could just attain balance by