Mine is a first run 1100GTO so it does not have gear switch or lever. It's possible the shipping the mount to your house may have shifted gear mesh. Peter

Brian, There is no Southern Hemisphere checkbox. It looks like the problem was a bad pointing model. Open the pointing model tab and make sure there are no unusually high pointing terms. If you

Peter Nagy wrote: One time I loosened all clutches in both axes to try to loosen the axes so I can balance easier. The clutches were loosened far enough that when I was swinging RA axis back and

Ray cancel that - it looks like i had a model issue - maybe bad model or model not loaded it seems to be working okay now -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio brianvalentephotography.com

One time I loosened all clutches in both axes to try to loosen the axes so I can balance easier. The clutches were loosened far enough that when I was swinging RA axis back and forth and one of the

Hi Ray i don't think so - i slewed to HA=0 DEC=0 and did the solve and recal there. I think the "near the pole" was when i disconnected APCC to restart it and it safety slewed to park. I attempted to

Peter Nagy wrote: Too tight gear mesh can cause motor stall. Gosh, I hope not, I just got it a couple months ago, not ready to start adjusting things yet. So you didn't buy the cosmic ray

Too tight gear mesh can cause motor stall. Peter

Ray wrote: No, but I have continual monitoring of the utility power (124.0 to 125.5 in the 20 minutes or so around that time), as well as 3 UPS's inside, none of which reported any issues. Unless

Do you have a UPS backing that Powerwex? Brownouts do occur. Idk. If the occasional motor stall doesn't affect your imaging sessions, then you probably could ignore it. If it does affect imaging,

Ray wrote: The mount is on its own Powerwerx 25A supply powered by AC (set at 14.1 fixed), with 12awg wire closeby. Not power I think. Definitely not balance. Help me with some perspective -- is

Hi Linwood, A motor stall is reported from the firmware and is not something the software could be doing. When a motor stall occurs, it's like it sounds - the motor stops tracking (it's not the

I was imaging and it was going great, guiding in the 0.18 to 0.25 or so range, all was well and I glanced at the screen and saw stars streaking. APCC was showing tracking=0. I reached over and

Hi Peter, For now, you should keep the A-P hand controller disconnected from the mount and let APCC initialize and park the mount. Park the mount to Park 3 using APCC and manually move the mount if

Hi Brian, It looked like there was a plate solve/sync near the celestial pole. That's a bad area of the sky to do a plate solve because RA can be very inaccurate. Could this be the problem? -Ray

My 1200 still parks one hour CW up after a session started from Park 5. I checked the site time settings, which are correct. I also copied the mount location and time to the hand controller (selection

Hi folks - and probably Ray specifically ;) my plate solve/recals have gone awry - Any suggestions on how to debug are welcome everything's worked great until a few nights ago now plate solves result

Thank you for telling me about the update which I was not aware off. Clear skies! Phil

https://astro-physics.info/index.htm?products/mounts/mach1gto/mach1gto Capacity Approximately 65 lb. (30 kg) of scope and accessories, depending on length. Recommended for: Astro-Physics and similar

That is correct, it was revised to 65lbs and that is reflected in the product information/history as well.