Power supply for Gemini 1
Hello, The power supply of my venerable Gemini 1 recently brouhgt down. Unfortunatly Losmandy sails no more power supply for Gemini 1 . Had somebody the same problem in the past? Is it possible to use
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arnaud kneib
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#32903
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Re: Interrupt message on HC with Gemini 1
I managed to get to site to look at this further. What was strange is I couldn't slew to anything to the West without getting an interrupt message. I checked the controller, and internals to make sure
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Daniel Judge
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Re: 'SRAM failure +WD Reset' on Gemini 1
Hi Paul, Michael and David, Thanks for your useful replies...(I'll email you David in a separate message.). Hopefully this unit still has some life left in it! BTW...sorry for the strange font in the
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Simon Kidd
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Re: 'SRAM failure +WD Reset' on Gemini 1
With luck and a following wind ¨C I¡¯ve got one with identical symptoms on the bench that is ¡°resisting¡± repair! David Sent: 02 January 2022 00:18 To: [email protected] Subject: Re:
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David C. Partridge
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Re: Interrupt message on HC with Gemini 1
I've been looking through the logs and didn't see anything that shows a goto limit issue, all Serial Received results show "MS, 0" in all logs for the past few days. That might lead me to the
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Daniel Judge
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Re: Interrupt message on HC with Gemini 1
I had been using Warm Restarts, but since this occurred, I powered off and powered back on with Cold Starts from CWD to remove any prior modelling. I've set the goto limit to Western: 96, Eastern 98;
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Daniel Judge
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Re: 'SRAM failure +WD Reset' on Gemini 1
Hi Simon, Your good news is that expert repairer David Partridge lives in Warwickshire UK. Might be, so to speak, a next door neighbor. He'll fix your faulty unit. He's at
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Michael Herman
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Re: 'SRAM failure +WD Reset' on Gemini 1
Hi Simon, This problem can be caused by some hardware failures. The one that seems to be fairly common is the failure of a voltage supervisor IC, as described in much more detail by Brendan Smith
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Paul Kanevsky
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'SRAM failure +WD Reset' on Gemini 1
Hi All, Happy New Year! Its not started well for me I'm afraid!? I have a quite old G1 (DIN motor connectors but with slide switch on/off) and it has worked perfectly for a very long time, with
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Simon Kidd
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Re: Interrupt message on HC with Gemini 1
I would add that if you use warm start (or restart) on a regular basis, it's possible the limits can drift a bit Brian
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Brian Valente
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Re: Interrupt message on HC with Gemini 1
Hi Dan, This is from the Gemini 1 Level 4 manual, discussing the goto limit and safety limits: I suggest that you check your Goto and safety limit settings, as they are possibly preventing you from
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Paul Kanevsky
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Re: Interrupt message on HC with Gemini 1
Ok interesting, Not sure how that might occur as I covered all ports with tape to stop any small bugs getting within the controller. Everything does feel ¡®buggy¡¯ lately. I can slew to some stars
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Daniel Judge
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Re: Interrupt message on HC with Gemini 1
Hi Dan, The "interrupted" message in my experience says that a button was pressed during the slew. It's how a user at the mount would stop a slew gone amok. Of course you have no real button as you
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Michael Herman
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Interrupt message on HC with Gemini 1
I've been using my mount in a remote installation lately, and often I will power the mount down and power up and connect to it when it's to be used. I've just now encountered a constant interrupt
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Daniel Judge
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Re: ASI Air Pro use on Gemini 1
Hi Nick Yes, the rpi is just like any other PC in that regard, you can simply reinstall the OS (Rasbian or astroberry in this case). You should be able to find instructions online by searching for
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Ronon Dex
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Re: ASI Air Pro use on Gemini 1
Nick you might just try downloading astroberry and installing it on your rPi, wiping the sd card in the process? Brian Brian Brian Valente portfolio brianvalentephotography.com
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Brian Valente
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Re: ASI Air Pro use on Gemini 1
Adding: the hardware I have is Raspberry Pi 3 Model B V1.2, 2015 CMD line reads as follows: dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4
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Nick <nbill1797@...>
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Re: ASI Air Pro use on Gemini 1
Good to know. Thanks Brian!
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Nick <nbill1797@...>
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Re: ASI Air Pro use on Gemini 1
Hey Tino, Hmmm...this may change my setup. I actually HAVE a rPi. It came with my telescope(used). The only problem is the previous owner couldn't tell me the password. Maybe I can dedicate the rPi to
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Nick <nbill1797@...>
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Re: ASI Air Pro use on Gemini 1
Michael Astroberry pi vs stellarmate pi https://indilib.org/forum/general/6858-stellarmate-vs-astroberry-what-is-the-difference.html Chuck
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crocco1250
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