Roy I had the same problem. Unfortunately I do not believe there is a cure, just a work around. 1. There was a suspicion that it had to do with the ftdi or lack of an ftdi chip set. I had the failure

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Bill: 1. If you are polar aligned by sharpcap, you have gotten your RA axis parallel with the axis of the earth. That is step one. 2. If you are polar aligned, there is in principle no reason to do a

Nice Mick! Get a few more to bring out the running man. Why it all blue? Wes.

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Mario What does the asiair use to drive the pmc8? Does it use the Es ascom driver? Surging during lunar viewing makes no sense relative to the pmc8. If the moon is moving in steps it is because the mo

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Nice wade Wes

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Jdavis Man that looks danged good. Dust lanes, core, disc. Nice. Wes

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Mario Are you using explorestars? If so are you in P or T mode? Wes

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Nice nice nice. We does love our m31. Too bad it’s collide with us! Wes

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Ian Nice technique. Very cool. When I said “break the clutches” I meant release them 😀. No problem to push to! You might be interested to know the iexos clutch uses a friction lock system to engage th

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Ian Glad things are working for you. As an armature who has some great results with the ecos2, I appreciate having your professional feedback. A few questions/points 1. To get the mount tracking are y

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How about you tap the PVC and thread the cable connector in there. Wes. Virus-free. www.avg.com

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Symon The worm is retained by a collet which screws into the end of the worm block. This thing puts a pre-load on the worm bearings, and is often overtightened by the factory. It makes things ratchety

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Wade: Sorry, my reply to you was circuitous enough to confuse. It is not presently possible to have the serial connection live while the wifi module is selected, but it seems likely it would be possib

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Wade: The PMC-8 box associated with the Exos2 has a wifi module which will do either TCP or UDP. The Iexos wifi module only goes one way or the other. The serial port is not TCP or UDP, it is a direct

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David Explorestars only works over WiFi. Serial is for ascom. Wes

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Symon No that is not right. Something is slipping or some thing. 1. Suggest you pull it apart and check the set screws that hold the pulleys on the shafts of the worm and the motor. If you look in the

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Todd 1. What driver did you load. You should use the one with a name containing “anycpu” or some such. 2. Be sure to load a good driver for your iexos FTDI usb to serial adapter. 3. When you load asco

Doug Whoop!

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Ian Glad you are up and running. You will find the Es pmc8 based mounts provide great value and are quite capable. Take a look at the photo share posts on the mounts forum. Many getting great shots, w

Ian Welcome to the group! There are lots of folks here that will help you get up and going. Also you will find lots of information in the links that are on the web site. Additionally just about every