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Hi Don, Thank you for the confirmation & update. Much appreciated. Best regards Martin

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Hi All, I heard from Dan, he will work on a fix for the manual flip bug next week. He is quite busy with two professional observatories, so fixes for the track past and underpole mirror flips will hav

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Hi Martin and Simon, You have definitely found a bug in the latest version of SiTech. Using 095X, doing a manual commanded flip results in a mirror flip rather than a true flip back to the same target

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Thanks so much Don

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Hi Shaun, That doesn't happen with RA, but it is very typical in DEC. When you use the hand pad to slew in DEC, you command it to go either toward or away from the pole (either North or South). When y

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Hi Don, Yes I recall you touching on problems with 095U & 095X although I had not appreciated that this extended the 'do GEM Flip' function as I'd never had cause to use. I just became curious when I

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Hi. I have a very confusing situation and I’m not sure how to reproduce it or what causes it so to me it appears as if it’s random. Occasionally, when I’m slewing in either Dec or RA with the controll

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Don, Sorry I must have missed it, but I've not seen anywhere that the 'do GEM Flip' issue has been acknowledged as a bug, but perhaps I'm still struggling with the terminology for 'below the pole'. Is

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Hi Martin and Simon, I reported back on Jan 15 that both 095U and 095X have problems. Normally Dan makes changes to the last version of the program. But both 095U and 095X had fixes based on previous

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Hi Simon, I owe you an apology. I'd previously reported that manual meridian flips worked OK but I've just carried out the same routine as you & I now think I was wrong. I can replicate your findings.

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I checked my set-up compared to Martin's, the differences were minor (I had always stay above the horizon set) but everything else was the same. This is the procedure I followed: Mount Parked weights

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Hi Russell, Thank you. You have made some valid comments. Fear not I have also contacted Mesu. I'm sure most SiTech users realise it does not track past the Meridian without stopping or flipping. But

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Hi Martin, I understand what you are up against, but I'm going to come to Dan's defense just a bit. If Mesu sold the mount with the ability to track past north and south meridians, then your issue is

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Hi Don, I have tried 95U on my backup PC but widening the track-past limit exposes the 'mirror slew' bug when operating in the NE quadrant of sky. Also even if it didn't, 90 deg is not enough because

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Hi Martin, You need to use 095U for now. That fixed the track past limits to allow the total of west limit + track past to equal 89.9 degrees. But 095U has the under pole flip problem. Dan knows about

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Thanks for the files Martin, I'll compare them and get back to you - probably be a few days -no I didn't get a cfg file from Lucas , but the manual said it was factory set, thanks for the help - I rea

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Hi Simon, I have to agree 100%. Bent knee pier users need to make compromises for certain scenarios. Hopefully the mandatory track-past restriction in GEM mode can be resolved soon. The encoder settin

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ok so it seems like to try and avoid the bugs, i need to change config to eq mode when observing for long periods and crossing the meridian for more than 25 degrees and I want to start weights up - mo

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@JonK, To answer your question of me. Have a quick look back in this thread to posts #34084 & #34092. U or X doesn't really matter to me as I'm stuck with having to use meridian flips until Dan comes

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