Hi Dan, The encoders have been discontinued but I found a link to the user manual. http://www.enkodery.pl/download/instrukcja_obslugi_gc-mk.pdf I have a pole length of 1mm and the highest

Back to square one, strangely and unfortunately. Everything had seemed OK so I swung for the fences with Kstars but no joy. Basically what happened this afternoon: 1. Turn controller on. 2. Launch

Hi Nigel, Where in the sky is you scope pointed? If it is pointed below the pole the Dec motion is reversed. Try pointing the scope straight up at the zenith to check the motion. If that motion is

Hi Dan, I have altered the check boxes and the mount moves the correct way in Servo Config. But when I use the hand control buttons in SiTech .95P up and down are reversed again. Nigel

Hi Mark, The proper setting of the PIDs is not precise. Settings work over a wide range of settings. But you want tthe settings to give you smooth motion of the servos. What you want to check when

Progress, I think. Running ServoConfig on a MS Windows box, I cut the PID integral in half to 1250 and doubled the PID derivative to 8000. I wasn't able to run SiTechExe095jLinux_ on the MS Windows

I have made a little progress on this. GNU C contains a structure for low-level terminal communication that works just fine with the SiTech Servo Controller I (as you might expect). With this, it is

the TTL has the advantage that it pulls the signal high instead of letting it float. It will probably work with either because we have pullups on the controller. Dan

Mark, what encoder mode(s) are you using? There's not enough resolution for cascade mode, but tick management would be a good choice. I'm pretty sure it's not a linux version issue. The linux

Mark, sounds like the servo motors need to be tuned. There is no difference in linux than windows as far as I know. Increase derivative, reduce integral. What is the SiTechExe version you're running?

Joerg, can you let us know the encoder part number? The magnetic encoders have a lot of interpolation error. We should look this up. My guess, that's the problem. Dan

Hi Roger, most folks on this group use SiTechExe. Not too many of us are that familiar with Planewave STI. But my guess is you simply need to initialize on a star, do a platesolve, or something.

Hi Nigel, Gary is on the right track, but you can't do it with those buttons. You have to click on "Edit Parameters" and use the check boxes near the bottom of the screen. If the motor works, but

Hello to all, Being a newcomer to this group, just hope you will forgive these first steps towards reaching optimal parameters for my new Planewave 200hr mount using the SiTech controler. I also have

Recent post over at le SkyChart about this. Not sure if it's worth the bother on the SiTech end but interesting for LEO observers. -Jesse

Hi Don....(and Dan) Thanks for working on this problem with me... What I thought was a polluted model actually turned out to be another culprit.... This was my RGSZ 20 scale tape that was on the Ra

Dave, I went down that same rabbit hole but can't find the end now. Digging back through my CI-700 'database" I have found other CI-700 related info I've collected plus there could be a copy of the

I take that back - it looks like the actually content pages were not archived. :-(

Col, I found the linked website on the internet archive (an excellent site for finding old content back as far as the mid 90s!). See:

Hi Nigel, Go To your Servo Configuration (not SiTech.exe) and on the first screen find where it says Azimuth/RA YBits and just below that find Invert Motor Encoder and Invert motor and just click on