Re: Things noticed with my G11G regarding recent topics including shaft wear, bearings, worms and miscellaneous
Those are some serious star trails. A couple more questions: Are those star trails north-south, or east-west? That is, is it trailing in declination or in RA? How good is the DEC balance? With the
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Les Niles
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#73198
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Other possibility for oblong stars
I live in the northeastern US and am a G11 owner. ...I image with a 1000mm f/l scope and use 400mm for tracking, with a? ratio of 2.5, typically getting RMS values under 0.5 and with good seeing,
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wa1vta01452 <loeblt@...>
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#73197
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Re: Gemini-2 momentarily went haywire
Very good thinking, Les! I will see if the PC DEC slew works properly. Best, Michael
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Michael Herman
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Re: Things noticed with my G11G regarding recent topics including shaft wear, bearings, worms and miscellaneous
Why not, Peter? If your guide scope guiding is not showing any large errors and the main imager shows constant drift, this is most likely differential flexure. Other possibilities include differential
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Paul Kanevsky
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Re: Gemini-2 momentarily went haywire
Ooops this is a G2 ¨C in which case a burnt out motor control PIC. Sent: 08 August 2021 16:23 To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [Losmandy_users_io] Gemini-2
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David C. Partridge
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Re: Gemini-2 momentarily went haywire
Most likely a burnt out PAL decoder for the Dec channel ¨C you need to program it of course. Sent: 08 August 2021 15:24 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Losmandy_users_io] Gemini-2
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David C. Partridge
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#73193
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Re: Things noticed with my G11G regarding recent topics including shaft wear, bearings, worms and miscellaneous
Hi David, You adjust the back off bolt so that the worm friction drops to it's minimum. That is, you want the worm to just *lose* contact with the worm wheel gear it is driving. If you are adjusting
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Michael Herman
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Re: Gemini-2 momentarily went haywire
The next obvious guess would be resoldering the hand controller socket. Then start tracing the HC signals to look for something gone wrong. This would be easiest if you have a good board to do an A/B
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Les Niles
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Re: Things noticed with my G11G regarding recent topics including shaft wear, bearings, worms and miscellaneous
Just one more little thing. Before I even touched my mount, I made sure I had a complete understanding of what the factory settings were. I wanted to make sure I had a reference point to refer to when
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David Malanick
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Re: 76sec error on new OPW-11
I have seen the new "milled down" (front or back full side) with the milled down bottom stud (aka "nipple") only on new SLW (spring loaded worm) drives. Earlier wirm blocks were completely black
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Michael Herman
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Re: 76sec error on new OPW-11
David, I drilled and made my pivot hole larger. Most folks with new mount probably will not want to do that. Peter
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Peter Boreland
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Re: 76sec error on new OPW-11
The blocks evidently have changed. This must be due to the change over to the spring-loaded worm. I ordered a set of extra blocks when I did the Belleville washer modification, in case I needed them
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David Malanick
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Re: Gemini-2 momentarily went haywire
Hi gang! I received John's questionable G2 mini board, to test it out. Symptoms: It boots up fine. It slews to an Align Bright Star target fine. If you press the RA diamond East West button it slews
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Michael Herman
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Re: Gemini-2 momentarily went haywire
Was the board repaired at Losmandy? ?From experience a runaway flew is a bad motor socket solder join. The ICs used are mostly capable of ?minus 20C. ?All ICs were chosen to suit this wide temp
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Brendan
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Re: Gemini-2 momentarily went haywire
Update: this hasn't happened at all in the past couple months. Theory: this is temperature related. Question: I think I read someone mention (maybe in this thread?) that cold temps does make this more
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papagordygrapes@...
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Re: Things noticed with my G11G regarding recent topics including shaft wear, bearings, worms and miscellaneous
Here is a run down on the problem. 1. It occurred after changing out the Ra axis thrust bearings. 2. Polar alignment is via Sharpcap and was bang on at CDW. Just installed the NINA 3-point polar
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Peter Boreland
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Re: Things noticed with my G11G regarding recent topics including shaft wear, bearings, worms and miscellaneous
Michael, Since Peter is in the UK (I think), Sagittarius must be pretty low in attitude (20 degrees?), even as it crosses the meridian. That's a lot of air to see through, so could this be more
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John Kmetz
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Re: Things noticed with my G11G regarding recent topics including shaft wear, bearings, worms and miscellaneous
That was my thinking, too. The symptoms really fit differential flexure. My back-of-the-envelope calculates that even a pretty loose polar shaft shouldn¡¯t have more than several arc-minutes of slop,
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Les Niles
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Re: Things noticed with my G11G regarding recent topics including shaft wear, bearings, worms and miscellaneous
from his piggyback guide scope and it's autoguide camera. But he is perplexed by getting oblong stars in his main camera when he is pointing South like to Sagittarius. When he points to zenith he gets
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Brian Valente
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Re: Things noticed with my G11G regarding recent topics including shaft wear, bearings, worms and miscellaneous
Hi gang, Yes ..thank you for the detailed parts list. That is very helpful. Peter and I have been discussing his experience and some good ideas came out of those discussions. Among them... (Peter is
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Michael Herman
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