Hi Robin, Yes, I did read Bob's message, but I find nothing in it that suggests he tested it under conditions of use; i.e., actually measuring flexure during tracking. Lifting the scope up by the

Did you read Bob Luffel's message? From what I understand, the hollowed out bars have not been produced very long. Bob's description sounds like he did test it "under conditions of use." From Bob

I guess Roland just did! I stand corrected!! :-) -Ray

Hi Mike, Yes, I'm aware of those commands. I thought the "guide rates" only applied to hardware guiding from signals given through the cable connected to the mount. But, the button commands (from

Thanks Mike. Looks like a winner. So, if I understand all of this correctly, I can make my board so that I can use MaxIm serial commands for guiding an AP-GTO mount as follows: 1 - send :RG0# -

The firmware also supports 0.25x, 0.5x and 1x. These are referred to as "Guide Rates". Referencing the Astro-Physics command set, these rates can be set with the :RG0#, :RG1#, and :RG2# commands

From: Robin Casady <GoTo@...> Subject: Re: Dovetail Bar Flexure and Go To? Hi Robin, You did mention that and I think that is where all the "problem" stems from. Under conditions of use,

From: Robin Casady <GoTo@...> Subject: Re: Dovetail Bar Flexure and Go To? Hi Robin, You did mention that and I think that is where all the "problem" stems from. Under conditions of use,

Hi Doug, and all, Now seeing the actual cases, I do have issues, questions, and uncertainty, that I'm going to have to address to Thermodyne. First, the size change, and integrity of the cases: I

writes: All hand controller - i.e. keypad- functions can be applied to any of the serial ports. All ports operate the same as the keypad port. Roland Christen

writes: Not true, you can command it at any rate down to .25x. Roland Christen

tedi@... writes: To move the mount thru the serial ports requires that you use the Move and Quit commands of the AP protocol (same as the Meade commands). You would have to write a short

very nice cases what is the cost: thanks charlie against protected. would flat variety your the

I forgot to acknowledge all the effort and work by Mark D'Ambrosio for bringing Thermodyne to my attention and getting the case design going and negotiating a group discount for us. Thanks

I have uploaded some pictures to the yahoo-groups ap-gto site in the files section under the folder AP1200_cases. The following is a summary of my impressions of the cases I have received. I

Hi Ted, That feature of MaximDL I never used but looking at the help file Maxim can optionally send an ascii string like "MOVE x.xx,y.yy", which is the time to move the mount in each

Thanks. That will save some money. Now I need to decide on a pattern. A grid of 1" squares would be easiest to program in the CNC. Would a pattern with cross diagonals [1] be stronger? Seems like it

Roland, Thanks for your help with both the calibration question and the Dec wiggle problem. I have talked with Wally in the past. He is also a very informative and helpful person. Anyway, he and I

Hi Ray, The MaxIm DL docs and dialogs have a specific feature which do in fact send serial port commands. Here's a clip from their help file: *** Control Via is used to set the output method for the

To All, As a point of reference, I use the AP DOVELM and Losmandy 17.25" dovetail to secure a 10" SCT to my 1200-GTO. The pointing accuracy is about +-2 arc minutes after adjusting the OTA