Nathan, I doubt you're pushing the limits. While ES initially aimed the mount at the light and simple end of things, owners have had a good time pushing the limits as an astrophotography mount, which

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Nathan, Starting a new topic about your specific problem is the right thing to do. Astrophotography is a tough hobby. Lots to figure out...hardware, software, technique, environmental conditions, suit

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Good! It does have an FTDI chip, right?

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

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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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Peter, Yes, I saw the video before I responded. Really couldn't figure out what you were trying to illustrate. There's a small amount of shifting back and forth by the large pulley, but that could jus

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Peter, Sorry, but I don't understand your problem statement. Are you saying that the DEC axis is binding in a certain position? Clutches should always be on, if the mount is under power. If that's all

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TeeJayBee, The PMC8 keeps track of motor counts on its axes and knows where it is pointed, in those terms. It doesn't know about stars. It may not be obvious at first, but that really is a feature, no

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Jeff, This picture is a bit fuzzy, but it looks to me like "Scope Type" says "G11". I don't use Explorestars, but if you have an iExos-100, I think it should be set to that - the mounts have different

Lukas, It's here: espmc-eight.groups.io/g/MAIN/files/User%20Contributions/EXOS2PMC8_TuningNotes_v2.pdf

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Lukas, +1 on Guiding. When I first got my mount, I saw guiding as a complication. Then Steve, my dealer, talked me into trying it. Turned out I had it backwards - guiding simplifies things! If you're

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Luiz, How did it go?

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Luiz, So... intermittent problem, can happen with either POTH or Device Hub? You don't say what you're using for a mount computer, but I assume that it's a laptop and probably either Win10 or Win7...

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Charles, This is re: DEC guiding? I touch on this a bit in my tuning doc. About the best you can do for DEC balance is a bit of camera-heavy bias with a refractor, but that DEC motor on the side will

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Leigh, Whatever else is going on, you might want to pre-emptively switch that unpowered USB hub out for a powered one... Lots of tales of woe over on CloudyNights from folks who experienced various fo

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Joseph, Re: The Clutch... If you scroll down the stardeck observatory link, you'll see some rather decent exploded photos of an LXD75, our EXOS2's progenitor. Our mounts have bearings on all axes and

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Joseph, Play (backlash...) in the gears? Some is indeed normal. Gears, shafts, bearings...all have tolerances. And the spacing between the ring and worm? It's fixed. No play in that. So the best you c

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Joseph, This hobby is an endless source of problem-solving opportunities :-) Just tossing some things out as grist for your mill... If you tell me that your mount axes wiggle, well, you may need some

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Rix, This was specifically about what you should expect when turning the gears by hand, during adjustment - and that illustrating one of the reasons why balance is important during a session (whether

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