Excellent. Rolando

Dean, Reference the Mach2 manual. There is a Pelican recommendation. Regards, George George Whitney Astro-Physics, Inc. Phone: 815-282-1513 Email: george@... From:

Hi, Does anyone know where I can get instructional videos and also tips in general? Any videos? Thanks

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Thanks

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 04:02 PM, Jerome Allison wrote: I'm wondering what other Mach2 users are experiencing with power usage with their mounts. Using a Powerwerx watt meter, I'm seeing about 1.05

Max, The driver can report Latitude, Longitude, Altitude, Azimuth, etc. and is ASCOM conformant so it's not clear what Voyager is asking for. I don't use that application so maybe someone else will

Microstepping means that the steppers must always be under power. Full steps can sometimes mean you can put the motor to sleep. Especially when using worm drives off of the stepper.

Tom See what PHD2 says about why it is best to disable backlash compensation settings in the mount. https://openphdguiding.org/manual/?section=Advanced_settings.htm#Algorithms_Tab Bryan

I installed the latest driver. It did not help with this problem.

Thanks, Christopher. I kind of forgot about stepper motors and their holding/stepping power requirements. I made an Arduino based stepper focuser system a couple years ago and programmed it to sleep

I was browsing some forums and looking at the latest ASCOM driver for the AP mounts and I noticed in the documentation that the DEC backlash should be set to 0 when using autoguiders. The question

Thanks, Ray. Worked for me too. Glad you're announcing updates here. Jerome

Ok, makes sense. Installed and is running fine. Thanks! From: main@ap-gto.groups.io <main@ap-gto.groups.io> on behalf of Ray Gralak <groups3@...> Sent: Monday, May 25, 2020 6:35 PM To:

Hi Ray, Thanks for the announcement and links. I'm one those people :) cytan On Monday, May 25, 2020, 08:35:54 PM CDT, Ray Gralak

The download links are in the post. Some people wanted direct download links and an announcement when the updates are available. This is that! I'll update the download link in a few days. -Ray

Ray, the same behaviour for me. Regards, Yves

Thanks Ray. I dont usually have this problem, but APCC Pro cannot see that an update is available. From: main@ap-gto.groups.io <main@ap-gto.groups.io> on behalf of Ray Gralak <groups3@...> Sent:

Hello All, I am announcing the availability of APCC Standard 1.8.2.0 and APCC Pro 1.8.2.1 (links below). Most of the changes are bug fixes and are itemized here: APCC - BUG Fix - Tracking rates

Awesome! Thank you Geert Donghun