How many times did you click on 'connect'? Some users (like me) need about three tries before it catches. Not a consistent problem. Some users have it, some don't. My WAG (because reasons) is that it'

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Paul, You're most welcome ! Glad it got sorted out. :-) - Bob

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Jerry, Any update on power consumption? - Bob

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Paul, Out of curiosity, when you tested indoors vs. outdoors, did you change from mains power to battery? I believe Win10 has power management settings for the wifi adapter, and I seem to recall that

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James, Yup. That cable uses a Prolific chipset, not FTDI. Unless something changed (Wes? Jerry?), Prolific's were specifically not recommended for this application, in more than one post. - Bob

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James, One small checkbox item: Jerry said: "the PMC-Eight in Serial Mode with a Serial DB9 to USB FTDI chip adapter cable" And you said: "I have both a serial (DB9) cable and a serial (ST4) cable I c

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Paul, If the DEC axis stays put when the clutch is on, then the clutch isn't slipping and neither is the mesh between the worm and ring gears. If you open the belt cover and the belt is moving, but th

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+1 on 'heavy'. Just as a science project, I bought my scope a 2", 2x ED barlow a while ago. I mostly wanted to check out how well my guiding held up at longer focal lengths (perhaps with a future scop

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Symon, One of the nice things about these mounts is that they don't have a lot of moving parts and are easy to work on and keep in adjustment. The simplest explanation for your click would have been t

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What Wes said... The motor whirr is normal, but the ticking is not. Should be easy to remedy, though. https://espmc-eight.groups.io/g/MAIN/files/User%20Contributions/EXOS2PMC8_TuningNotes_v2.pdf

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John, That's pretty much what I worked through on on mine, although in my case it was the small pulley's keeper that it persisted in going towards. One thing to add, though, is that there appears to b

John, I would guess that something's tipped. If the two shafts are not parallel, then one side of the belt would have more tension on it than the other, and it would drift like that. It's pretty easy

Go MAIN>Files>User Contributions I'm starting to think I can't win on this... https://espmc-eight.groups.io/g/MAIN/message/7962

Gernot, Whatever this is, I don't think that it has to do with your tracking *rate*. Notice the dumbbell shape of the bright star in the lower left corner? Blob-streak-blob. I'd interpret that as a go

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Thomas, We'd had a number of folks not subscribe to MOUNTS, and then not be able to use the link to find the file, so I moved it over to MAIN, which everyone ends up subscribed to: https://espmc-eight

Pelican Nebula - IC 5070 37 x 600s lights over three sessions, plus flats and bias Nikon D5300 + Optolong CLS-CCD filter + 0.8 Reducer Yes, you can do 600s guided images with the EXOS2 PMC8! Dithered

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Brian, How are you connecting to your PMC8 unit? Wired, or wireless? And if wired, a USB->Serial cable with the FTDI chip? - Bob

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Shailendra, One thing at a time... :-)) Camera-heavy, you can do indoors, with the mount parked. Yes, it will balance off-center, thanks to that heavy DEC motor hanging off the side, just do the best

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Shailendra, The east-heavy thing can easily become confusing, until you "become the RA axis". :-)) Then , it's easy. Read the section, but here's the gist of it: << Balancing East-heavy is easy. Begin

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Argh! So no voltage drop, you've got it all isolated.. Section 4 of my tuning doc covers balance. Generally not hard, but what's your scope? The other thing you might want to look for is cables doing

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