The clutch on the Mach1 is a brass plate and should have grease on it. The clutch locking system uses hard anodized pressure plates against a hard anodized hub. These should be lubricated also. It

Thank you Mike and Ray. Ray - I will email the requested files to you. Mike - In answer to your question "Parking - click to cancel" never stops even though the mount has apparently reached the Alt Az

Arun, Check for imbalance. Rev Q is very old and does not have integral gain to overcome a tiny positional error due to heavy imbalance. Park 3 might work because the weight is

Peter, there is something you can do about that infestation working its way up the pier, but it requires professional help. 😁 Jeff

Questions: 1. Does the driver say Parked or Unparked when you see these tiny movements? 2. If you manually slew the mount using the driver's buttons, then park it using the driver's Park (to Az/El)

Well, you are hanging that extra 20 kg out there a good 300mm over where it would be "normally" so it acts like twice that. But the mount should handle it. I had a 300mm F7.2 Newtonian weighing a

Arun, Alt/Az position may appear to change slightly because it gets calculated from these polled values from the mount: RA, Dec, and Local Sidereal Time. Although Dec is constant when parked, RA

This works for me. An additional camera and EFW are on the refractor, total weight at least 75 lbs.

Curious. A time zone spans a distance in longitude. If I place identical cell phones, Ipads, GPS modules or what ever, at both sides of the time zone, will they read the same time or will they roll

Bumping this in the hope that someone has some experience here: issue/Problem statement: Mount will not indicate is is parked at Alt Az position although it gets very, very very close. The AP V2 ASCOM

Hi Rolando / Marj / Karen, I was wondering if there are any updates for the 1100 production run? Been about a month :) Thanks, Pete (eagerly but patiently awaiting one)

I have stripped head back down greased surfaces and put back together all sorted pheww who knows what the last owner was thinking grrr Thanks steve

Thank you Steve &I Capt Max. I am having trouble locating the grease on the AP website - I'll just contact Daleen - she knows everything :-) -- Bruce Meadowlark Ridge Observatory

Hello, A question: I have an AP1200GTO on a fixed concrete pillar in an observatory. Would this handle the following load: a 300 mm f/4 newton with a weight of approximately 20kg (including

Hello Robert Now I am worried,you mention Grease I thought it must be a dry system there wasnt a bit of grease on any surface my last mount was a losmandy so I am used to stripping the mount down and

Steve, You mention stripping the top end down and giving it a good cleaning. Did you re-grease the clutch wedges and mating surfaces when you re-assembled it back together? Sounds as if you are

There is an ASCOM driver for the Digital Loggers web power switches. The Digital Loggers devices are great and very economical. I have installed them in many observatories. Check them out.

Ok thanks. Any preferred form of contact for this or is the contact link on your website enough?

Isn't that exactly what I said I was doing? Only it is 24v DC which is the supplied power supply.

Ray and Bill, I don’t use custom limits in the AE tab. I do use horizon and meridian limits. Here is where things got strange tonight. After I reproduced the error as I explained in my previous