Re: Issues With Initial GoTos on new GM811G
You are very welcome, Ryan. I only got familiar with these "hidden" gear settings when I changed my gearboxes to McLennan metal ones, from the stock plastic version. The stock plastic ones were fine
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Michael Herman
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Re: Issues With Initial GoTos on new GM811G
Thanks Michael for this response.? I changed the values to the ones you stated in your post and this solved the issue.? First goto from CWD was almost in the field of view of my lowest powered
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Ryan Weiss <rrweiss14@...>
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Re: How to pause a 492 digital drive
John, Why do you need to stop it tracking? Obviously, you could power it down or unplug the RA cable. Paul
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Paul Homer
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Re: Issues With Initial GoTos on new GM811G
Hi Ryan, I had a similar issue recently. I purchased a used G11 and I had a minor pointing issue, which caused me to replace the battery and do a firmware update. After that my pointing was much more
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James B
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Re: How to pause a 492 digital drive
Brendan, Sounds interesting. Can this interrupt switch be incorporated into the hand controller? Any diagram or photo would be helpful. Added a couple photos of what I'm up to. Thanks, John
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John Desbiens
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Re: How to pause a 492 digital drive
Fixing a 492 drive atm. It¡¯s stepper driver has an Output Enable pin which can be used to stop output stepper drive. ?I¡¯m sure it¡¯s already digitally utilised but the. cct could be hacked with
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Brendan
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Re: How to pause a 492 digital drive
Since the 492 isn¡¯t useful for slewing the mount any significant distance, and there¡¯s no calibration or model to worry about, turning it off works just fine. -Les
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Les Niles
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Re: How to pause a 492 digital drive
Chip is correct - there is no terrestrial model (no tracking) or other way to stop tracking on the 492 other than to power it off -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio brianvalentephotography.com
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Brian Valente
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Re: Changing limits caused "Target Unreachable" errors near the meridian
I think you want to set the limits to High values...> 90 (degrees). The limits are "measured" with respect to the CWD direction...i.e. near zenith. A low limit limits you to be near CWD. Always use a
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Michael Herman
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Re: How to pause a 492 digital drive
Hi John, I'm pretty sure you are out of luck on that one. AFAIK there is no way to run off the RA tracking other then the power button. -- Chip Louie - Chief Daydreamer Imagination Hardware
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Chip Louie
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Re: Issues With Initial GoTos on new GM811G
Hi... Glad you wrote that detailed report! Your RA worm gear is set incorrectly to negative, but should be positive. That will change its rotation direction to be correct. Note for the future: If your
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Michael Herman
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Changing limits caused "Target Unreachable" errors near the meridian
I just got a larger refractor 110mm and decided to change my limits to avoid hitting the mount. After doing that I started getting "Target Unreachable" errors on anything near the meridian to the
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rboudah@...
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Re: Issues With Initial GoTos on new GM811G
So I just did a couple of trials to see if switching the settings to G811 would fix the issue.? It does not, but working on this in the light gives me a better idea of what is going on.? My post
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Ryan Weiss <rrweiss14@...>
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Re: Issues With Initial GoTos on new GM811G
Yes, of course you¡¯re totally right! -- Brendan
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Brendan
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How to pause a 492 digital drive
Hi all, I had a 492 for a G8 laying around and I just installed it on my AZ8. It really work great. Better then the slo-mo cables. The only thing is once I center the object in the ep. and on sky
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John Desbiens
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Re: Issues With Initial GoTos on new GM811G
Thanks everyone for the help so far.? Lots of good suggestions here that I will try out tonight. This is probably part of the issue.? I did not cycle power to the mount immediately after updating
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Ryan Weiss <rrweiss14@...>
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Re: Issues With Initial GoTos on new GM811G
Not all of UK is +ve Longitude ¨C the meridian passes through Greenwich, London. D. Sent: 12 August 2020 16:53 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Losmandy_users_io] Issues With Initial GoTos
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David C. Partridge
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Re: Issues With Initial GoTos on new GM811G
HI Ryan, Since your mount is brand new, you should call the factory in California and discuss the problems. They should be at: (747) 283-1075 (The serial number of your mount head is printed on the
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Michael Herman
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Re: Issues With Initial GoTos on new GM811G
Ryan a few tricks longitude setup is ¡°- ve¡± in USA. ? ?¡°+ve¡± in UK ( https://gemini-2.com/hc/E019A.php ) Also south is ¡°-ve¡±! Local time is military time (
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Brendan
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Re: Issues With Initial GoTos on new GM811G
What David and GN said. When I first started out, I did exactly this and was wondering why things were not moving the way they should. It is easy to accidentally interchange RA and DEC when connecting
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