Great kioshie and Matt. Great example of why people need to monitor this forum. Lots of info flying around!

Kitoshi Load a usb to serial driver in your pc. Suggest you get the one that can be found on the parallax web site. https://www.parallax.com/package/parallax-ftdi-usb-drivers-for-windows/ After instal

Conan There is no system reset. But you cannot break it. You can only configure it incorrectly. Please. You must respond to people who are trying to help. Wes

Conan Ok. You have to step back and start over step by step But please answer. Did you upgrade your firmware? Or are you using it as it came from the factory? When did you get the mount? Is it a new o

Conan Please stop for a second Step by step take us through what you have done. You cannot have broken it. We can get you going. Wes

Conan Did you update your firmware? How do you know it is up to date? If you did update your firmware that means your serial connection was working. Please review in detail what you are doing and what

Jaimie Great. Thanks for closing the loop on this. In theory, most of what happens is explainable if the problem formulation is correct, observations are complete, and the right neuron fires. Wes

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Don Easy answer first. P mode is unique to Explorestars. It is useful if you have a virtual polar alignment from doing a 2 or 3 star alignment. P mode correct the pointing position in both ra and dec

Harry et al If you have a serial connection with ascom, or kstars, or asiair then my advice is you use that for astrophotography. Explorestars is indeed an app that is intended for visual use That sai

Don and jaimie The pmc8 firmware has an instruction set that is sent to it by any driver. There is an instruction that tells the mount to Track and the correct track rate is sent as a parameter. In re

Jaimie Yes that is the problem. For sure. I did notice I thought your small pulley was running too fast in your video. Star trails would absolutely be happening. Also you should add to your signature

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Conan Have you upgraded your mount firmware? Do you have a usb cable which is both for power and data? Have you loaded an ftdi usb-serial driver on you pc? Suggest you get it from the Parallax web sit

Jaimie Sure looks like things are turning. Not that you should, but did you update your firmware to the new 2A01.1? Trying to figure out what has changed on your system. Wes.

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Don. Just to follow up. When I said “cut the cord” I meant to try and learn the ins and outs without going physically to explore scientific. Just wanted to clarify this in case readers thought I meant

Don It’s good to align the pulley. The small pulley has a keeper in both ends and this pretty much keeps the belt in place. What you have to watch for is if you move the large pulley out too much it w

Don If the motor is turning and the belt is turning then the large pulley on the worm gear is loose. It is held onto the shaft by two set screws. You will have to remove the plastic housing to get to

Don What we saw in the zoom is that apparently windows and the mac on parallels both connect to the pmc8. This was leaving the windows version connected to the wrong port. The rn131 only will connect

Craig The Configuration manager is an older utility created to allow sending commands manually to the pmc8, manipulate the WiFi mode between udp and tcp, switching the firmware back and forth from WiF

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Craig When you get your usb to serial cable you will also need to load a driver for it. Be sure to get a cable with an FTDI chip in it. Then you can get a suitable driver from the Parallax web site We

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Craig Please complete your signature. The UFCT is in the pack. It is called (strangely) PMC-Eight 2A01 Configuration Tool 1.0. Wes

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