Hi guys, I thought that AP mounts don't meridian flip unless you tell it anyway. Is this not right? So if you start with the scope pointing east and CW down, after *passing* the meridian, the mount

Yes, thats one of the great things about AP mounts. You can shift the meridian by hours, and start with the scope down and CW up. This allows you to track right through the meridian without having

Hi guys, After reading all the angst about the telescope hitting the pier when tracking past the meridian, I have a question. Is the only time the configuration with counterweight up after a

Thanks Ray. The reason I ask this is because I remember early on when performing a meridian flip, the OTA could hit the pier depending on the two endpoints. I remedied this by always moving to a

Hi Craig, When slewing from counterweight up, the CP4 moves RA first to a counterweight down position, then RA/Dec. When slewing to counterweight up the CP4 moves in RA only as the last step. -Ray

Hi Konstantin, Chad is planning to use this feature with SGPro, so once the East limit is reached SGPro would do a pier flip. After the flip to the East counterweight up position there would be a

Hi Ray, thanks for that video. I have one question about the mount behavior if you set up as you mentioned and you are imaging started from a point more east than the limits with the telescope west.

>>>Please include logs and timestamps and other details when reporting potential bugs. Chad has refused to provide any logs at all. >>> Now that you've verified my user-error, hopefully I won't

Well, if that's as close as you can come to thanking me for the improvements I have made to APCC you asked for, then you're welcome. :-) If you only do GOTOs on the East side then I don't think so.

Hi All, Over the past couple days there has been talk here about how East meridian limits can potentially cause a pier crash. I believe the user improperly setup the limits and did not enable both

If not using APCC (e.g., Skyx --> V2 ASCOM driver --> CP4), what algorithm is used in the CP4 to slew the telescope safely from one side of the meridian to the other side. More specifically, what

Ray got me sorted out. For some reason Windows was pulling the settings from another location instead of the proper location. Thanks Ray! joel

Looking for a used Mach1, 900 or 1100.

Joel, One other thing. If there is an ap.ini file on the new computer, delete it. Newer versions of the driver will try to import sites and settings from ap.ini into the SQLite database thus

Hi Joel, Make sure you are running the latest version of the driver on the other computer. Some older versions of the driver used the text file "ap.ini" instead of the newer SQLite database file.

Well, this is really strange. I tried copying the settings.apdb file earlier before posting the thread. It didn't work. None of the sites were updated on the backup computer. After reading your

Hi Joel, You can copy the file C:\ProgramData\Astro-Physics\Settings.apdb to the same folder on your new computer. This will copy not only the sites but all other driver settings. BTW,

In the ASCOM driver, is there a way to copy the sites I have defined to a new computer/installation? This summer I am planning an extended trip traveling around the western USA. Since I know most of

Was this a pier

Chad you need to zip up your logs and post them. The truth will come out easily that way. Stop using YouTube and start providing actual data.