Re: Maintenance
To summary, SuperLube Teflon perhaps is the best. Where can I find it? Not
in Amazon, nort in SuperLube.com.
lbarneo
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Luis Barneo
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Re: Maintenance
Leroy,
We're not on Mars and Dow 33, now called Molykote 33 is still a Lithium and Silicone oil base. Lithium greases dry out and Silicone oil is a weak lubricant that separates and runs all over the
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Chip Louie
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#67077
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Re: USB 3, You were right Michael....
You are most welcome.
The benefit of this group is to share the improvements we find by the many
experiments we all try. Glad you like the USB 3 as much as I do.
One other note on that.
There are
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Michael Herman
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USB 3, You were right Michael....
...I think it IS faster.
Even though everything I'm running at the mount is USB 2 (Cameras, focuser, Gemini II), my Star Tech powered hub *is* a USB 3 type.
Michael suggested using USB 3 type cabling
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Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...>
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Re: Maintenance
I use Corning 33 which is used on Mars rovers, for my Montana winters. Some of the clearest weather I get now is winter, rained last night.
But as hot as the rest of the country is the M50 is maybe
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leroy <lmarion@...>
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Re: Maintenance
Brian,
MP-50 is a stiff, heavy clay thickened lube and is not a synthetic based grease. As I've posted before MP-50 is not as good a lubricant, just check out the TDS sheets for MP-50 vs SuperLube,
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Chip Louie
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Re: Maintenance
I've had my G-11 for over 20 years. I had one failure about 15 years ago on a night where the temp dipped to -15¡ãF (-26¡ãC). I cleaned and re-lubed the mount with Slick-50 One Grease (which was the
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Franklin
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Re: Maintenance
FYI Losmandy generally recommends a synthetic grease, preferably that has
teflon, and meets your temperature range requirements. We use jet-lube
MP-50 low friction moly paste. we do not recommend
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Brian Valente
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Re: Maintenance
Nels,
You do not need to use anything other than a single grease if you pick the correct one. Super Lube with Teflon uses a pure synthetic base oil and will not run when hot or get stiff when cold.
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Chip Louie
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Re: Going Auto with N.I.N.A
Hi Roman,
If you have the ASCOM setup talking to Gemini as it appears in the NINA screenshot I think you are GTG. You may want to review the settings in the ASCOM Gemini screen and be sure that the
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Chip Louie
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Re: Going Auto with N.I.N.A
Hi Chip ,
Thank you so much for info and I am connected to Gemini Driver 1.0.75 and
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Roman Kulesza
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Re: Maintenance
Jamie,
Balance your scope loosen the clutch knobs all the way, and see how smooth the action is, if it is slightly sticky clean it, if it is real smooth leave it alone.
Check the worm gear and touch
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Nels Johansen <nhbj6@...>
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Re: PREVIEW Part 3 of Practical Periodic Error Correction
Yes - at night.? If I back off it doesn't saturate.
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Jim Waters <jimwaters@...>
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Re: PREVIEW Part 3 of Practical Periodic Error Correction
Another great presentation love the view good sound settings
After first starting up PEMPro I Did not have an image, was running sharp cap At the same time in the background. as per Ray suggestion
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Ron Pepitone
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Re: PREVIEW Part 3 of Practical Periodic Error Correction
You are doing this at night right? I mean this is the same as imaging so in
no circumstances should your camera be saturating at 30 seconds
Brian
Brian Valente
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Brian Valente
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Re: PREVIEW Part 3 of Practical Periodic Error Correction
Will do.? I need to reduce the gain because the screen was white.? The camera saturated.
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Jim Waters <jimwaters@...>
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Re: PREVIEW Part 3 of Practical Periodic Error Correction
Jim just run it for 30 seconds, that should be enough
My experience was the 20 seconds wasn't quite enough so 15 seconds would be
too short for me too
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Brian
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Brian Valente
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Re: PREVIEW Part 3 of Practical Periodic Error Correction
Thanks Brian - I ran it twice using 15 seconds.? I will lower the gain and increase the exposure time.? I will also check my DEC backlash.
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Jim Waters <jimwaters@...>
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Re: PREVIEW Part 3 of Practical Periodic Error Correction
Hi Jim
I hope the tip i put in there was more obvious -
https://youtu.be/PaNeLBQU-d0?t=631
if you don't get an L shape result, repeat it until you do and make sure
you use 30 seconds. In my
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Brian Valente
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#67060
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Re: PREVIEW Part 3 of Practical Periodic Error Correction
Question - For Step 4 I get?straight lines with a round ball at one end.? I just guess based on the position of the ball.? Is it a little above or below the line.
I have run PEMPro several times
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Jim Waters <jimwaters@...>
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#67059
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