I guess one side question out of my long-winded one that I'd be keen to see if there's an answer to is is there a way to force the driver (or APCC or whatever) to accept an RCAL it thinks is too far

Hi Rolando, I'll try what you say and make sure that I know what PEMPro program does inside and out before I redo the measurement. I really don't like screwing up. The only advantage is that I only

Thanks for responding. The support e-mail will not be answered on the weekends since the office is closed. Here's the deal: your measurements are probably accurate if you followed the PEMPro Wizard

Hi Rolando, Thanks for the reply! I did send in an enquiry to your support email :) I'll definitely take your advice and start cleaning up the cabling etc and then try again withe PE

I have never said that there's a bug in the driver. I am saying that I have not seen the issue with PHD2 and SGP related to dithering. It could be operator error from OP. Peter ---In ap-gto@...,

I have spent hours trying unsuccessfully to reproduce the problem by removing PHD2 from the picture so I am almost certain this issue is not a bug in the driver. I don't have or use the latest

Hi Ray, OK. Like I said before, I have not experienced strange issues related to dithering with PHD2 and SGP. My only complaint is that sometimes dithering can take longer than I would expect but that

Howdy All, I recently became aware of a post on Cloudy Nights from one of our customers who received his Mach1 and loaded up his gear on it and proceeded to measure the periodic error using PEMPro.

The Absolute Encoders consist of high resolution Renishaw rings and readheads. They are the most accurate available and can position the axes to a tiny fraction of an arc second. In RA they will

The pre-defined park positions are only accurate if the mount is actually polar aligned. otherwise they will be off by the amount of polar misalignment. park positions can be used in the daytime to

Hi Peter, You wrote: Peter, I think what you are describing is unrelated. What's happening is that some of the PulseGuide moves issued by PHD2 dither operations are returning much later than they

Sorry. Yet another question. I have a GSO RC8" scope with a Vixen bar on the base, and I got the SBD2V with my Mach1 to attach it to the DOVELM162. It feels solid enough, but looking down the end, I

Roland, Can you help us all understand the absolute value in the encoder kit? I would be semi interested in that. :)

Thanks Rolando. I'm not sure that was the issue. My PA was only 0.5 degree out at most, and in any case I didn't do any slew in that sequence until the PA was spot on. I guess I must've done something

Folks, this is a deal for a precision US made mount that's designed, machined, assembled by our dedicated team of really talented (and great) people. Don't pass this up! Rolando

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I don't recall having dithering issues with PHD2 and SGP. When I first started using dithering with PHD2 and SGP, I started with pretty small settling size (in pixels) and it never stopped dithering

The only known way to get the problem to occur is with PHD2's dithering routine so if you want to keep looking into the problem that’s where I think is the best place to start. Note that users

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That is not really strictly true. Equatorial mounts don't care about their location since they care only if they are properly aligned on the pole and that their local time is known exactly. Only