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 fam

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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

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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 pe

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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

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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 Driver: https://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/CDM/C

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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 n

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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 https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0

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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.

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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. I

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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,

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Hi James, Thanks for all your hard work in looking at this. This has been a great contribution to the community. If you don't mind, I would like you to post your findings and any documentation you car

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Hi folks, thanks for the warm welcome and the replies! So, it looks like I got this working. First, I followed a few dead ends: - I got both the windows configurator and the parallax windows tools to

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This firmware loading problem might be solvable with a bit of experimentation... It always struck me as a bit odd that Parallax had development tools for multiple platforms, but somehow, Propellant.ex

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Hi James, Thanks for your purchase and welcome to the forum! Unfortunately for LINUX users, the microcontroller firmware update program (compiled) provided by Parallax only runs on Windows. The OpenGO

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James I would give wine a go at the configuration manager. You can't hurt the PMC8. If the comms work you are good. Also you could bootcamp your Mac and run windows to use ascom etc if you wish. I use

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Hello there, first time poster, I've recently taken delivery of an iExos-100 mount. I'm using an old laptop I've resurrected and installed Ubuntu 18.04 Linux onto, and I intend to use this for control

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Hi Koen! If it must not be a powerbank from Explore Scientific , have a look at Amazon. There I find many powerbanks, that have also 12V output. Look at this one: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07QGC1MBC/r

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Please contact Bresser customer support via https://www.bresser.de/c/en/support/ Kent Marts Customer Service

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That I do not know. Kent Marks might be able to help more with that. Thanks, Stephen Vickers Explore Scientific 1010 S. 48th Street Springdale, AR 72762 m. 870.654.6995 d. 479.347.2963 stephen.vickers

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Hi, Stephen, Looks nice, but is it also available in Europe somewhere? If i would order it from your site shipping and import taxes almost double that amount...

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