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Re: How often to disassemble, clean regrease?
Anthony I have been regularly imaging with a G 11 G for five years and what I have found so far is that after about two years I was honing in on improving all different kinds of goto and tracking
By Ron · #72259 ·
Re: Changing the servo motor encoders from 256 to 512 or 1024. Any reason not to do this?
My Goto's with my G11T 1:2 belt drive and 25:1 McLennan gearbox are spot on. That works fine. And when I used a 50:1 McLennan and the stock 3 transfer gears on tucked Titan RA the GoTos also worked
By Michael Herman · #72258 ·
Re: Changing the servo motor encoders from 256 to 512 or 1024. Any reason not to do this?
Hi Michael, PEMPro will retrieve the count from the Gemini and use that to calculate the PEC curve. In this case, the number would be 6400, which would be wrong, so I suspect the resulting curve would
By Ray Gralak · #72257 ·
Re: Changing the servo motor encoders from 256 to 512 or 1024. Any reason not to do this?
Nice catch, Ray. That could explain the puzzle... and also my puzzle on my 1:2 belt drive G11T. (Please see my PEMpro question at the bottom of this email...) Some thoughts... The number of data
By Michael Herman · #72256 ·
Re: Changing the servo motor encoders from 256 to 512 or 1024. Any reason not to do this?
32000 is above the maximum number of ticks, which I think is 25600. The tick count probably wraps at 25,600 so 32000-25600 = 6400, which would explain the 1/5 cycle. -Ray
By Ray Gralak · #72255 ·
Re: Changing the servo motor encoders from 256 to 512 or 1024. Any reason not to do this?
Ray, PEC training quits after 48s, 1/5th period of the worm. I think this has to do Pec working with 6400 ticks instead of 32000. Peter
By Peter Boreland · #72254 ·
Re: Changing the servo motor encoders from 256 to 512 or 1024. Any reason not to do this?
Hi Michael, How are you determining that it is quitting early? And, how much earlier does is it quitting for you? And again, using an autoguider to create a PEC curve is not going to give the best
By Ray Gralak · #72253 ·
Re: Changing the servo motor encoders from 256 to 512 or 1024. Any reason not to do this?
Peter, The difference between 89754 and 89754.2 over 3 hours is about 0.4 arcsec; it is not likely the cause of the mount running slow. Did you do the test I suggested in a previous post? Did the PEC
By Cyclone · #72252 ·
Re: How often to disassemble, clean regrease?
Yes, Anthony. This has been hashed through many, many times before. Suggest you just plug regrease or relubricate in the upper right hand search box. I did mine after 3 years and after I noticed the
By John Kmetz · #72251 ·
Re: Random Gotos during plate solving
On one hand, I'm a little bit happy to find out about a fix to this problem. On the other hand, I feel some righteous anger boiling up. Ever since I had this mount, it would GOTO correctly 97% of the
By alan137 · #72250 ·
Re: Replacing the stock gearbox... interest in a metal one?
I agree with Chip Louie. In my case going to the McLennan 25:1 gearboxes I was mostly motivated by the fact that the front and back are metal, not plastic so the mounting of the motor on to the
Re: Changing the servo motor encoders from 256 to 512 or 1024. Any reason not to do this?
Ray, I am speaking about trying to use the built in PEC recorder feature advertised as being internal to Gemini-2. It does not work for the G11T. It appears it does not work for the 125:1 gearbox
By Michael Herman · #72248 ·
Re: Changing the servo motor encoders from 256 to 512 or 1024. Any reason not to do this?
Michael, you obviously haven't used PEMPro, because you don't feed a PHD2 unguided log file into PEMPro to create a PEC curve. Maybe you are thinking of the PEMPro Log Viewer, which does accept PHD2
By Ray Gralak · #72247 ·
Re: Changing the servo motor encoders from 256 to 512 or 1024. Any reason not to do this?
PCBoreland, (What is your first name?) I encountered the same problem as you report: the Gemini-2 PEC training acquisition time is broken. The internal PEC that is advertisef to work in G-2 does not
By Michael Herman · #72246 ·
Re: Changing the servo motor encoders from 256 to 512 or 1024. Any reason not to do this?
As was pointed out by David Partridge, it is possible to change out the gear box on just RA if one uses the web interface to select the parameters. I installed the 125:1 gearbox earlier in the day,
By Peter Boreland · #72245 ·
Re: DIY Spring Loaded Worms for the G11
I have seen this behaviour in DEC before. It happens more often that not when your scope is on one side of the meridian and pointing right at the zenith. It bounces N/S because it is "hanging down".
By [email protected] · #72244 ·
Re: Meridian Flips and NINA
I may make some tweaks later to WSL and WGL but for now I am happy.? I think I will increase Max Minutes to 35 or 40 because of NB imaging.? My biggest issues now is mount shifting during meridian
By Jim Waters <jimwaters@...> · #72243 ·
Re: Meridian Flips and NINA
Gemini-2 Western Safety Limit - 101? ?( 00:43.53 hms after Meridian) Western GoTo Limit - 11? ? ? ?(flip at 00:00:00 hms, right after the Meridian) NINA - NB 094 Minutes After Meridian - 10? ?
By Edward Plumer · #72242 ·
Re: Meridian Flips and NINA
The digital thermometer I have on the patio said it got to 118 yesterday in the shade.? At midnight it was 101.? There's way too much smoke from the forest fires to consider setting up.? Last night
By Jim Waters <jimwaters@...> · #72241 ·
Re: Meridian Flips and NINA
Jim, hope you are in a nice cool place today! Here is result from last night. So far, still consistent with my understanding of the NINA settings: I was imaging M20 which transited meridian at?01:51
By Edward Plumer · #72240 ·