Without digging thru logs, no way to deduce anything. i doubt that the mount would stop on its own unless there was a power glitch or low battery. Rolando

I agree that the mount stopping could explain what I saw. The only commands being sent to the mount were from PHD2.

If you move the 1100 manually with clutches loose, then you have lost the alignment. The encoders do not respond to clutch movements, neither do they respond to you setting the scopes at right angles

Hi Lee, Assuming the bump caused a clutch slip, homing won't help. Except for the Mach2, the encoder doesn't know the mount position if you move the scope via the clutches. But to answer your

OK, a variation on the same theme for my AP1100 with absolute encoders. I was happily imaging on Arp273, even using the pointing and tracking model that I had made just for that declination (I used

Yes, that is what I have been using. Maxim won't update after a slew. The only difference is that i always have a camera and guider connected. So, maybe I will try using Maxim as you did, without

Hi Roland Yes I did. I did two separate slews to objects that I selected from the Catalog tab in the MaxIm DL Observatory Control window. I also parked and then un-parked the mount from MaxIm and in

If the mount stopped tracking the stars will run across your chip at 15 arc sec per second. Maybe the mount didn't run away, just stopped tracking due to any number of external commands. Roland

Thanks Ray. Will give it a try tonight.

No model being used. Encoders on.

Did you slew with Maxim after doing part2? Roland

Part 2 of this experiment was actually to connect from MaxIm directly to the mount via the AP-V2 Driver. I got the same results as above - all were normal, and the mount status was the same in both

Mine works with direct connection to computer Ethernet port or through Ethernet switch. It shouldn't matter. I don't use APCC, just A-P V2 ASCOM mount driver. Peter

M Hambrick wrote: In the troubleshooting discussions of why my mount status is not being updated in MaxIm DL after slew commands it was suggested that when connecting to the mount with an ethernet

Thank you everyone. This fixed the issue. I has selected Astro-Physics mount rather than ASCOM mount. Best, Tom -- CN: HasAnyoneSeenMyNeblua

In the troubleshooting discussions of why my mount status is not being updated in MaxIm DL after slew commands it was suggested that when connecting to the mount with an ethernet cable that it should

So the best way to recover is: 1. Loosen the clutches 2. Move the mount to Park5 and level it 3. Tighten the clutches 4. In the ASCOM driver, command the mount to unpark from Park5 5. In the ASCOM

Doug George at Diffraction Ltd had me run an experiment to connect to the mount through the ASCOM Device Hub (by way of the AP-V2 ASCOM Driver) instead of APCC, and then connecting MaxIm DL to the

No, the park anywhere feature is correct regardless of what is used for initialization. In your special case we don't know what was sent to the mount when you powered it back on. One would have to dig

Yes, we are working on something like that for all our encoder mounts, including the 1100 and 1600 mounts. Rolando