Ralf, we found a bad bug in the meridian flip, when ascom tried to do a GoTo to nearly the same place. It's fixed in 0.95G. http://siderealtechnology.com/SiTechSetup095G.exe

I don't see that. Some functions don't work. Park and slew after plate solve work but the Move direction arrows don't. On 4/6/20 08:58, Mariano Ascheri via groups.io wrote:

I have problems with SharoCap and SiTechExe. SharCap Frezze. Wihtout SiTechEXE SharCao work fine. BW Mariano El lunes, 6 de abril de 2020

Is anyone using SharpCap with SiTechExe? I am trying to but running into problems. -- Ned Smith 34.893N, 85.471W

Hi Russ, thank you. The axis itself is concentric, only the worm gear is eccentric to the DEC axis, so there is slightly different space between worm gear and worm during one revolution. So normal

Ralf, Yes, the DEC works very well. Yes, it is interfaced x1000. I do not use a guide camera. I think Dan recommended 10M plus ticks for cascade mode in the help files, but I'm not sure of the

Hi Russel, your encoders are so hugh! No I don't want so many ticks, I said only that it is possible up to.... I thought about 10-15 million ticks/rev. If Servo II can deal with 10 M ticks my mount

Hello Ralf, I would highly recommend that you speak with a Renishaw representative before you make a plan or get a Renishaw encoder. They will help you setup the encoder for what you are trying to

The damage renders the board not worth repair. I do surface mount manufacturing and I won't fix it, any time there is trace involvement on a multilayer board it becomes easy to determine its ability

That magnitude of damage is not economically repairable. -Christopher Erickson Observatory engineer Waikoloa, HI 96738 www.summitkinetics.com

Have you checked with Dan to see if it can be repaired? Josh

I'm hoping that someone might have a ServoII they want to sell, Might stopped working and upon investigation it appears that lightning may have visited the observatory. If someone has one they are

Take a RESM20 ring DA 100mm and a VIONiC head with 2,5nm resolution. You can also take a RESM20 Ring with DA 550mm which has 86400 optical lines, so you get 691,150,000 tics/rev. The RESM20 costs

Hi Ralf, OK, I am learning something too. The output of the A-B type encoders are all square wave. Internally, I don't know, but they could be sine waves. I would like to know the model number of

Hi Alvero, Well, you are now ready for better nights and more comets. Great! Don W

I tried that last night and it worked relatively well. As always we had clouds moving in and we have the moon in waning gibbous, so I did not got my best go to (the

Sorry Dan, I'm afraid you're wrong. I googled a lot and looked on renishaws homepage, and I can now answer my first question: High-resolution encoders have initially an analog sine- / cosine-wave

Hi Paul, In order to goto a planet, your controller must be accurate (an OffsetInit) pointed at the sky. Whether day time or night time, you can use SkyView in SiTech to goto a planet. You have to

Hi Ralf, There are two main types of encoders used with SiTech controllers. They are A-B (quadrature) encoders common for the Servo I and Servo II controllers. These are NOT sign wave, they ARE

Next question: You recommend Renishaw 26 bit absolute encoders in Cascade Mode. This will recognize and compensate backlash? It sounds so: "Cascade Mode: You can ONLY use this mode if you have High