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AP1200GTO Momentary Power Loss
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rboudah@...
Last night I had a momentary power loss from my battery box and when power was restored to mount and communications resumed it was lost and asked to be un-parked. I thought it would start from the last known position. Is there a setting I'm missing that would tell the mount to use the last location when the power is restored.
I have the CP3 control box and the V2 chip. In addition is there a setting to turn off the windows top-most flag for the ASCOM driver window so it plays nicely with other programs and doesn't have to be minimized to get to other windows. It even takes priority on the desktop over task manager. Rick |
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Hi Rick In your second question that option is here:  On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 4:42 PM <rboudah@...> wrote: Last night I had a momentary power loss from my battery box and when power was restored to mount and communications resumed it was lost and asked to be un-parked. I thought it would start from the last known position. Is there a setting I'm missing that would tell the mount to use the last location when the power is restored. --
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rboudah@...
That worked. Thanks
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rboudah@...
What is the normal behavior of the 1200GTO if you lose power. I found I needed to manually move the mount to the park position and restart after recovering communications. It would be great if it powered backup with the last location so a plate solve and resync would get me going again. What do people do in a remote setup with this mount. Am I missing something?
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On 3/18/2023 9:32 AM, rboudah@... wrote:
What is the normal behavior of the 1200GTO if you lose power. I found I needed to manually move the mount to the park position and restart after recovering communications. It would be great if it powered backup with the last location so a plate solve and resync would get me going again. What do people do in a remote setup with this mount. Am I missing something?I believe the 1200 has a "park anywhere" feature that will remember its last pointing position when power is restored. IOW, you can simply turn off the power. Check the user manual; I think there's something there that talks about this. --- Mike |
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Ray Gralak
What is the normal behavior of the 1200GTO if you lose power. I found I needed to manually move the mount toIfyou are using the ASCOM driver, or APCC, unparking "from last parked position" (the default) will restore the mount's position when it last lost power (or was last parked/shut off normally). The keypad can do the same. -Ray |
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Roland Christen
You don't have to manually move the mount. When power is restored the mount remembered where it was and will continue on its way. No need for homing, syncs or recals. That's with the keypad set to Autostart YES.
Rolando -----Original Message-----
From: rboudah@... To: main@ap-gto.groups.io Sent: Sat, Mar 18, 2023 3:32 am Subject: Re: [ap-gto] AP1200GTO Momentary Power Loss What is the normal behavior of the 1200GTO if you lose power. I found I needed to manually move the mount to the park position and restart after recovering communications. It would be great if it powered backup with the last location so a plate solve and resync would get me going again. What do people do in a remote setup with this mount. Am I missing something?
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rboudah@...
Thanks, I'll check all those settings.
Rick |
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