Good work. Presumably the longitude is used in the mount controller to determine the meridian flip point, so it's not just a case of setting a value which can be read back by the PC software and

Hi Chuck, I shot an email off to the firmware author. -Ray

Hi Pierre, I don't connect the handbox to the mount at all and it works the way I described. I think in your case the hand controller is passing the longitude to the mount, but the hand controller

Yeah, but the printed command protocol doc from AP indicates that it is looking for and giving longitude in a 0-360 format. I think the firmware author needs to chime in to solve this

Ray, I have autoconnect set to No and want to keep it as is; so the location is prompted at every power cycle, which - after selection- erases the value in the mount and sets it in the range 0..360,

John, The sequence cannot work exaclty like this: after the power cycle, the keypad prompts for location selection; selecting location 1 will replace the mount values. I habe autoconnect to No and

Hi Pierre, Try reading back the value with PulseGuide after the reboot instead of with the keypad. For me it comes back correctly. If it does for you as well then this sounds like maybe a change to

What if you don't use the handset at all after using pulseguide, i.e.: - set the longitude to W 6 50 via the keypad for location 1 - power cycle - start PulseGuide and get Site Long - set longitude

Need to add the following: right after "observe that PulseGuide reads back the value correctly" I use the keypad to - display the longitude for location 1: it is W 6 50 (although PulseGuide did send E

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Hi Pete, I have seen the flurry of posts. Let me offer some simple suggestions. Don't put any glue or any other stuff down in the hole. I think that is a low probability of success and higher

Hi Ray, This is Rev L. CP3 (this is a brand new Mach1). In my latest tests, I used PulseGuide and only PulseGuide (1.30). This is the exact sequence to show the value is not retained after power

Hi Konstantin, The value is being rejected by PulseGuide I think because the keypad wrote a value over 180 degrees to the mount. The range is -180 to 180 in the LX200 protocol so I that is the range

Hi Pierre, I am using Rev I of the firmware (CP3) and the value sent to the mount IS retained after a power cycle. Which Rev are you using? Also, if there is a bug in the hand controller firmware,

Hi Ray, I wrote about this two years ago. I managed it till that time by starting only from the keypad. Konstantin Hammerichstr. 5 22605 Hamburg 040/8805747 01711983476 Am 17.12.2007 um 16:10

Hi Ray, No: unfortunately, the value written by PulseGuide is _not_ retained properly after a power cycle if the longitude is East. Last test I did was to set the longitude to W 6 50 then change

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Hi Pierre, So it seems that the problem might be fixed by changing the keypad firmware to write in the range -180 to 180 instead of 0-360. I think because Pulseguide writes in the range -180 to 180

Chuck, as the AP protocol is extending the LX200, I read back the LX200 description (http://www.meade.com/support/LX200CommandSet.pdf) This indicates the presence of the sign, and that East