Apologies Walter Must have had one too many scotches! Wong guy, wrong thread Still.... what you say ,, I concur 😊 Me bad Dave C Sent from Mail for Windows 10

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Hi Wes, good timing I’m doing the Crab at the moment Still having issues unguided Still doing the shift left shift right thing. On 1.6 at the mo, would there be any improvement on 1.7? Here I’m using

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Hi All, You might be already aware of this, but latest PHD2 build enables multi star guiding. There is a long thread on cloudy nights https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/743080-phd2-adds-multi-star-gui

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Good! It does have an FTDI chip, right?

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Hey Bob, I've bought a serial to USB cable. I intend to use it tonight. Hopefully this will improve my experience. Thank you for the advice! Cheers, Vlad

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Vlad, No need look at the logs. Wireless is convenient for visual users, but for astrophotography users, it's a "siren song", best avoided. I'd suggest that you get a serial-usb cable with an FTDI chi

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What version of Nina and Phd2 do you ? Do you use an Ascom hub to guide with Nina and Phd2 at the same time ? Did you read the Phd2 troubleshoot manual from one of the developers ?

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Hello everyone, I've started astrophotography in September last year with the following setup: Telescope: WO ZS 61 Mount: EXOS-2 PMC8 (wireless connection to the laptop) Camera: ASI1600MM Pro Software

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Once I get them and evaluate I will post. I believe someone else posted some time ago. Wes

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Thanks for sharing! Would it be possible to share the specs and from where you order these replacements? It would be good as a reference for an upgrade I might try myself in the future. Walter

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Thanks Carsten! I just ordered ceramic bearings myself. Also some thrust bearings, which I fear will not be so good, as they have poor nn-axial load capability. Wes

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Carsten, You're most welcome - glad you were helped! - Bob

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Since my English in speaking and writing is rather poor due to a lack of practice, I recorded the text in German and then sent it through the Google Translator. Please forgive me. First of all thanks

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Well, I hope that this fix is not my isolated case only. Someone should try it to confirm if it helps to get uniform mesh tightness 360 degrees around. My "shims" are just folded sticky note :D Differ

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The deal is with this mount at this price point the mechanics are not perfect. So you will find that the mesh tightness is not uniform around all 360 degrees. This means that when u set the tension yo

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Wes, thank you but am I understand it right? You are saying, that the issue I was describing and fixing is simply a feature of the DEC ring gear and a worm? That the mesh tightness is not even 360 deg

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Peter If this proves to be universally true you just may be the next steely eyed rocket man. Really this problem has always been ascribed to eccentricity. But if in fact it is addressed by better alig

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Bob, as I said, the ring gear moves after locking the axis for some reason. This causes the mesh between the worm and ring gear to be too tight on one side and too loose 180 degrees on the opposite si

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Peter, That's a surprise! Are you showing that the worm block was not sitting flush despite being fastened down, or something else? Here's a candid shot of mine, from a bit different angle - no room f

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Nice, I found out the factory used inch and metric Allen screws for the dec motorbox 😕

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