I personally prefer not to solder things anymore. While I'm pretty comfortable with my soldering skills, I prefer to skip that with cables because it makes fixes in the field more of an ordeal and I

Ray, I modified the sample horizon file you sent to me and now have the horizon for my location input into APCC PRO. But now I have a new issue. I have been using APCC Standard for years to control

I am a fan of Switchcraft DC jacks. They seem to be of much better quality than run-of-the-mill amazon stuff, bit easier to solder, and made in USA. Would like to hear that others have used for

People talk about "high quality" cables and connectors. What are some examples/brands of high quality ethernet and USB cables? Are Power Pole connectors high quality? Eric

Thanks Greg. You are correct. But if you read carefully, you’ll see it’s basically what came out of the first posts of this thread. CS! Sébastien

Looks like this thread is turning into a “free advice” private club party. Where do I sign up? I wanna laugh too! ;) Putting it back on track, thanks to Jack for his detailed recommendations. They

Ah the suppleness Don Anderson

At least Karen didn't ban me for my candidly-irreverent reply in the semi-recent "World's Greatest Secret" UFO conspiracy thread. I felt like I had really pegged the old Mirth-O-Meter with that one

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

You'll never know until you ask. :)

Maybe I should apply with AP to be an emergency-alternate backup tech support geek... ...if they would let me work from my astro-cave here in Hawaii. "My advice is always free and worth every

That was an attempted inoculation. LOL "My advice is always free and worth every penny!" -Christopher Erickson Observatory Engineer Summit Kinetics Waikoloa, Hawaii

I laughed out loud at this one, Chris. I'm retired from AT&T and also hold an Extra class ham radio license. You tempted me. :)

I have been using APCC Standard for years to control my AP1600 using SkyTools PRO V3 and now SkyTools V4 Imaging. I have the mount connected to the computer using the Serial/USB connection on

Also, keep in mind it's not just the cable thickness by itself. The length of cable is also part of the equation (as well as if it's in a bundle, underground, if it's double insulated, etc.). If you

Hi John, That's excellent information and I much appreciate the detail. You have also raised something that I didn't consider yet with those popular power supply modules as I had not really seriously

Are any of these using the 1 PPS feature of GPS for better accuracy than the serial data stream? I’m not sure there is a practical difference but they all seemed to not have it, not sure if

Migration of electrons have to exceed 740MHz to start migrating to the outer circumference of the conductor (depends on the conductor structure). So your USB or interface cabling should account for

@Dale & All, The app came for free with the GPS dongle. Not very sophisticated. Thus probably missing out on DST. I asked NMEATime2 about preferences of COM over USB vs BT. BT seems to be deprecated.

Christopher, I leave half of that work to the UL/CSA compliance guys. And then, skin effect and velocity of propagation at 0Hz could be an interesting discussion... 😉 CS! Sébastien De :