We can sometimes. Winter is usually bad, Spring is okay, Summer is excellent (if we don't get smoked out from wildfires), and Autumn is a toss up.

Very good! I didn't think anyone could image from the Pacific Northwest. Rolando

Hello Astronuts (as Roland likes to say), I return to you with another image taken with my trusty AP130 GTX and AP1100 Mount. While working on another project, I had a small window of time I could

Joe I’m keeping this for posterity

Hi Rolando, Your explanation is much better than mine. The only drawback about spinning the spur gears with hand controller or third party software while mount is powered up is you may not be able to

Rotating the gears manually will lose the registration of the PE curve with respect to the gears. You can rotate them all you want with the drive buttons (on the keypad or other software/hardware).

No you cannot in that case. Just make a new one. Rolando

Correct me if I'm wrong. In addition to Rolando's excellent comments, I would suggest to never manually rotate the spur gears inside the gearbox cover because it will lose PEC unless you know exactly

Okay - good to know. Thanks Rolando. I will put loading a new PEC curve on my list of "things to do". Stuart -- Stuart Heggie http://www.stuartheggie.com/featured.html

************ BRAVO, maestro Dave ! Thanks for getting the APmount’s geared-orchestra in-tune, playing the same opus, right from themount’s carton “grand opening”. Joe Z.

Please contact Howard at our Tech support and he can install it into your mount. Rolando

We ask for the serial number for our records. No, we did not load the CP3 curve into your CP4. The CP4 has a different memory with more data points, so the curves are not really compatible. Rolando

With the exception for curves from CP3 boxes with Q or earlier chips, right? I updated my CP3 from rev. O to V2, and I think my original PEC is unrecoverable due to chip changes after Q? If it *is*

Hello Rolando, are able to send me PE curve of my AP1100-AE mount n°11003 ? Thank you. Rémy

Very interesting. Thanks Rolando! Possibly a dumb question but when I upgraded my AP900GTO to CP4, it seemed important to know the serial # of my mount. I assumed it was to load my original PEC curve

Hi again ... Chris I awoke today and just realized I left out a fewimportant points in my TEAMVIEWER advice on your posted subject (Nov.30). First, I forgot to say that to guarantee a

We create the encoder curve using proprietary PEMPro software and a precision reference motion that is accurate to +- 1/10 arc sec. The mount's movement is compared to that precision reference and the

Question, Roland - how /do/ you create the factory curves? Do you haul each mount out to the observatory and wait for a suitably clear and stable night, or do you have a (literally) in-house test

..that is the question (apologies to the Bard) Hi Astronuts, We have been shipping out 1100 mounts in the present production run, and as most of you know the mounts are tested here and loaded with a

Here's an updated image with a bit more data behind it. Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/97807083@N00/45489980324/in/dateposted/ Astrobin https://www.astrobin.com/379905/?nc=user Thanks for