Jerry, As always i appreciate your responsiveness and detailed, this one being somewhat over my head, answer, lol, but I get the point. I was just wondering because a lot of the components sounded

HI Darryl, The PMC-Eight Control System is a dedicated instrument designed to control a two-axis stepper motor system. There are actually 2 microcontroller chips in the PMC-Eight system. These are not

Hi Jerry, Thanks for your time. Unfortunately I can't see the internal RN-131 SSID in the network list when i scan for wifi connection. I probably didn't explain well in my previous posts, sorry: I

Hi All, After going through the Programmers Reference Guide looking for solutions to an issue I have with switching between serial and wifi modes, it bought to mind one of the main reasons I invested

I suggest you get the latest driver from the FTDI Website. You want the VCP (virtual com port) driver. Here is the link to the Microsoft Windows FTDI VCP

Hi Filippo, Yes, I suspected as much. You performed the section entitled: "If you want to change the PMC-Eight WiFi RN-131 configuration then perform the following procedure:" Unfortunately, you did

Hi Filippo: I have these: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/your-account/order-history/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_pagination_2_3?ie=UTF8&orderFilter=year-2019&search=&startIndex=20 and

Hi Jerry, I used the Explore Scientific PMC-Eight® Application Note PMC8-AN002 pdf. In putty i used the $$$ to access commands and used the factory RESET command.

Hi Filippo, Your system is not bricked. Tell me exactly where did you get the information you used to do all these changes, then I can understand where you issued the factory reset as you called it.

Hi everyone, I'm a proud new owner of an exos-2 pmc-eight. I probably made a big mistake: I wanted to update the firmware so I connected putty to the mount with WiFi. I switched to serial connection,

Dan: The system in the picture is the EXOS-2 PMC-8 and ES N208CF Newtonian. I must admit I do not use this set up anymore because I have the G-11 PMC-8 and ES 127 FCD-100 refractor. I was thinking

I want to announce that I added a new hashtag #VIDEO to allow us to highlight messages that have links to videos. This will help everyone find videos that will help explain issues or provide

Hi Wayne, I was going back through the messages on the MAIN group and noticed that your question fell through the cracks. You may have already found the answer. The backlash on the EXOS 2 PMC-Eight is

Hi Chris, Thanks for the answer - so you‘ve used Starry Night with Mac OS ? And there was no problem to switch back from USB to wifi? Thanks and Best Regards, Mirko

I guess I would need more information about you setup to determine what might be the problem. One possibility is if you try to connect the mount driver to more than one piece of software you will have

Hi Lloyd. I see you're in Michigan. I'm in Clinton Twp, MI, about 45 minutes outside of Detroit...and about 20 minutes from Chuck of Chuck's Astrophotography. :) Nice to see some local boys here.

Thanks for the replies. For posterity... Initially, I was using ASCOM 6.4 and it was constantly freezing. Then I read a post where someone said to point to POTH from Carte du Ciel and other programs,

Brian Hehe sorry I didn’t mean to offend you. Yes the polar scope must be collimated to the ra axis of the mount. It is necessary for its line of sight to be a true indicator of the ra axis

I have used Starry Night Pro 8 with the IEXOS-100 over serial. It's not my usual setup...I got into the habit of using Stellarium and AstroPhotographyTool, but I have used it in the past. -- Mounts:

Jennifer, Tim Thank you for your input! I will follow workflow as I just started at this crazy amazing hobby. I found a youtube video that all it is Is white light for an hour, I used it with my