Hi Bob, Yes, It is hard to develop and create a system that is all things to all people, or will do what is needed based on the local conditions. We don't have a mount AI that will see where you

Jerry, Re: polar alignment... During the brief time I tried Explorestars, I tried to use its alignment, andran into the same issue that I had both years ago, with my old Autostar, and the (several)

Cyril and Jerry, My $0.02... Based on my own experience, I think that there are real practical limits on putting a topic area in a new title, as the problem likely hasn't been diagnosed yet. I think

Hi Cyril, I just reviewed the postings you were referring to, to remind myself what the specific comments were and how I responded. The thrust of the issue at that time was that sometimes when we hit

Hi Jim. I have seen this type of error message when more than one ASCOM client is trying to connect to the ES_PMC8.Telescope driver at time. The timing isn't really an issues as the PMC_Eight driver

HI jerry When I first received my mount and PMC-8 I discovered that I had a problem with the stepper motor slipping and asked for some advice, from that post until I resolved the problem I received

The message box comes up from CDC Warning: Error: Unable to read data from the transport connection: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine. I am sure it is being

Hi Jim, I don't see any attachment or any other indication of the error in you message. You may have to manually upload the screenshot file (I assume that's what it was) and then provide a link to it

Jerry, I get the following error message when using Sky Chart (CDC) and ASCOM Pad Not all the time, just some times. When it comes up, I just have to reconnect ASCOM Pad to mount. Any ideas? It is

Hello Jerry, All, While I wait for new couplers, as well as another type I found on McMaster-Carr that could potentially work, I decided I needed to do something to be absolutely sure that the helical

Hi Jerry, Yes, I tried to simulate the capture of the bearing blocks and worm by holding everything in line, and there is clearly excess twisting forces exerted on both couplers that would make good

HI Jeremy, I understand. I will talk to Alex and get a new coupler sent to you. You I would be interested to see what you measure as the difference between the two. While you are waiting on the

Hi Jeremy, I have no doubt the coupler could be slightly out of alignment, but consider that with the worm fully captured by the end blocks, the worm will not oscillate. The way I typically mount the

Hi Jerry, I took the mount base/RA section down to my table saw, and borrowed a dial indicator from work, so I could take some measurements with reference to the flat table saw surface. I removed the

Jerry, I took a look at that test report. Yes, very nice! Testing is all weather dependent, but if I am able to take it for a spin, I will. - Bob

I have update the BETA version of the PMC-Eight ASCOM driver which includes the ASCOMPAD fixes. Please see my previous message about getting the latest version of the ASCOMPAD program version 2.09. I

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the ESPMC-Eight group. File : /Mount Related

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the ESPMC-Eight group. File : /Mount Related

I figured out where the .DLL file goes: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\ASCOM\Telescope Is this correct?

Thanks for finding this Jerry. However, after uninstalling the older version, and installing this version, I still have the same issue of the mount continuing to move after releasing the control