On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 04:07 PM, Paul Kanevsky wrote:
On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 07:03 PM, Brian Maynard wrote:
My less than a year old G11T in my observatory (climate controlled) has been idle for a few weeks. Its just been too cold for me. So the other night I was ready for some imaging. Everything started normal but the first goto wasn't going in the right direction. Not even close. I checked all my settings in N.I.N.A, the Gemeni settings and the hand controller. Nothing has changed. All good. My location, time, date, all good. Several more goto attempts was all the same, not even close. I tried a goto with just the hand controller, same result, way off. I use an ethernet cable, so I replaced that with a new one. No change. So I'm thinking maybe the firmware became corrupt during the short hiatus. Just checking with the group for any other suggestions. It doesn't seem like a hard task to reinstall the firmware from what I've read but if there's any update that can ruin a mount, its the firmware.?
I'd suggest that you just need to reset Gemini and set all the parameters from scratch. Possibly some setting got corrupted since your last session.
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Maybe do an HGM default reset then manually enter your settings.? If the memory has a bad couple of bits often the data corruption can walk through the memory making the problem worse until you notice something is weird.? Extreme cold and long hours of intermittent battery voltage may also have had something to do with it.? For that reason I would not trust any saved config files unless they are old enough to be well outside the possible data corruption time frame.??
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Chip Louie Chief Daydreamer Imagination Hardware?
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Chip Louie