Good news! I just finished a PEMPro backlash analysis, and the triangle wave looks perfect -- no flat tops and no overshoot. So there is no need for me to set any backlash compensation in MaxIm or in

Clearly a lot of thought went into the design features of the next generation A/P Mach2 GTO mount. They need to stay ahead of the competition.

Thanks! I can verify through my experience with the Mach2 that it does retain its position. This is a nice feature given how many times on my Mach1 I had to loosen clutches, manually park and resume

It is my understanding the location in the drive train of the Encoders is different between the AP1100 and the Mach2 GTO. The Mach2 has them located so that you can move the scope by hand and not

I was curious for anyone familiar with the AP1100with AE. Does that mount allow you to move the axes by hand and not lose position as with the Mach2? My friend that bought the 1100 was asking.

PS Did you find a serial number on the mount? I know it’s supposed to be the same as the CP5 but thought it would be on the mount too

Congratulations Terri, hope you get a chance to try it soon under dark skies, which I’m also impatiently awaiting. I’d planned to do more setup outside today until the dry forecast mysteriously

Thanks guys, I have received the mount and it’s all together and up and running. I’ve installed the v2 ascom driver and gotten that working with cartes du ciel. This was all pretty fast and

Yes, mine is also off when I startup. But also, I noticed both yours and mine show the home positions as -100H (HA) and -100 degrees (DEC). Does that mean the AE function needs to be initialized or

Hi Dave I travel quite a lot for my job, predominantlyinternational and (luckily) business class. The airlines are very strictabout the weight limit of each piece of luggage. In the US the limit

My GTOCP4 firmware version is A01-13 which I believe is the latest version. I tried again tonight and checked the status of the encoder. And again, the encoder setting is off when I start up. I just

I just updated to the newest version of APCC and the driver. I park at Park-2, which is basically azimuth=90, altitude=0. When parked the altitude sometimes dithers a few arcseconds. With the new

Hi Ray, The custom slew rate fields are no longer available in the drop-down list menus. Please refer to the Optional Initialization window and also to the Rate Settings tab. Regards, Yves

This seems to happen occasionally with users - it would seem a nice enhancement and reduce the support load for AP if APCC checked for the minimum version of firmware required for a given APCC

Hi Folks, Have a question about airline travel with mounts and tripods. The Mach1 was advertised as airline friendly. Given that the Mach2 is heavier, would it still qualify as 'airline friendly'? If

Hi Cytan i believe you need to be on the latest GTOCP firmware, you might want to check that out -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio brianvalentephotography.com

Hi guys, I'm wondering whether upgrading to APCC 1.8.0.2 disables encoders from an older version? Please see screen capture: I didn't realize the encoder was disabled until I looked at the AE tab.

Your guider software should produce a tracking graph which will tell you what's happening. You could be having a calibration issue, or too high aggressiveness, or a bunch of other settings that are

The weather is supposed to clear out for Sunday and possibly Monday. I need to finish up some collimation work on my iDK so I am hoping this comes to fruition.

I agree, I’d get familiar and comfortable with operating with the driver and your imaging, guiding and planetarium software before diving into APCC. All the software will coexist and interact