I had some problems keeping my raspberry pi virtual serial port stable for more than a couple of hours. Now I'm looking to run sitech.exe locally on the pi. I've heard there is a Linux version of SiTe

Hi I'm moving and can't take my mount to the new house. I s anyone interested in my equipment.? I have Servo Controller II Wired Handpad Two 19 volt Pittman D.C. Servo Motor with encoder and 10:1 gear

Christopher Erickson 2:14 PM (1 hour ago) to IOTAoccultations I recently got a GPD micro-laptop for engineering work travel. It is gobs of fun. Just don't forget your reading glasses. I got the cheape

I've had a Servo II controller for a decade or so, with generally good performance. The only issue is that it would occasionally lose connection with the computer, but it was liveable. However, that p

Hi, I have a problem in configuration my Servo II controller with scope encoder ticks using ServoConfig 1.3. On AutoTracking page the maximum numbers of scope encoder ticks per revolution can be 19 99

Hello all, I seem to recall a discussion here some months ago about optical USB 3 cables. If anyone remembers it, would you kindly steer me to that topic so I can review the discussion? Many thanks, F

Thanks to Dan Gray for finding the solution to my "runaway motor" problem. All along I thought this was a mechanical (broken or failed part) issue. Dan showed me that a software switch had been set in

Hi. Im making a homemade german EQ mount that will use SiTech servos. I already have a design for a worm drive system but to get rid of errors and backlash I want to transform it into a friction drive

Question, Does the vertical bar that progresses across the Pec Graph window have any correlation to the function of PEC? Here is what's happening on mine, The progress bar gets to the right side of th

Hello. My fork-mounted homemade telescope seems to be experiencing a lot of tracking error and it tracks a tad too slow. (I'll attach an image of my scope and a ZIP file containing a photo displaying

hi, I have the Mesu e200 MKII GEM and because of work-arounds for the 'track past meridian bug' often when I go-to an object the mount points with the weights up, often meaning the object is obscured

Latest Testing: Test and Tune in Manual for both axes Both motors: Input V = 4.92. Both motors rotating slowly. A and B = 2.5v Seems completely normal to me? Leave Test and Tune and start SiTechExe. C

The online manual for the SiTech Time Server states: "Connect the Ethernet port of the SiTech Time Server to your local area network, via a cat5 (or compatible) cable." In my observatory, I have no "l

Hi Dan, I am finally reporting this Daylight saving time change glitch which I have noticed for the past few years. I have noticed this with 2 different mounts and different versions of sitechexe (cur

Hello. I recently noticed, that when my telescope is tracking, it often completely stops and I have to physically click the tracking button for it to start moving again. This happened while I was usin

SiTech.exe is running but the SiTech window is off the screen to the right. I have had this before and it is easy to correct but I have forgotten the magic spell that makes it all better.-- Ned Smith

I use this motor on a large DOB as the Azimuth drive. The power supply is 20v. Symptoms: After power on any motion command courses the motor to run away. Usually a run away stops after a few seconds a

I currently have Renishaw encoders on both axis of my cassegrain. However they only have about 1 arc second resolution. I want to upgrade the read head from .5 Micron to 40 nm resolution. This would g

I have a telescope where I haven't been able to get a precise tic determination on its alt axis. The scope only has an 8192 tic mount encoder, so using that doesn't yield a very accurate determination

I use plate solve 3 and have forgotten where al its data is stored, I am sure I uses the default location and it works well for pxp modelling an single init. I have just installed N.I.N.A. and that pr