I noticed today how sensitive my mount/scope combination is regarding balancing. It worked quite well for a few hours, but then there was simply no way to use it. I tried to rebalance it, and it was damn close to perfect, but still I kept loosing the connection. Please note that the tracking (or slewing) continued even without USB connection, so it wasn't a power failure, and I could guess that the balance is not the issue here.
It could be a USB cable issue, even if I use right now a shielded one with an industrial USB hub in front of the scope (and all other accessories working well even during the interruption, like the CCD camera). Maybe it has something to do with the interface to the mount (which I hope is not the case, as I am not really willing to unmount everything to send in the mount ).
As for the errors, sometimes i get ReadInt errors, sometimes I loose one axis, but most often Autoslew starts to do the Software USB Unplug/Plug procedure, mostly without success.
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lukepower
Hello,
I noticed today how sensitive my mount/scope combination is regarding balancing. It worked quite well for a few hours, but then there was simply no way to use it. I tried to rebalance it, and it was damn close to perfect, but still I kept loosing the connection. Please note that the tracking (or slewing) continued even without USB connection, so it wasn't a power failure, and I could guess that the balance is not the issue here.
It could be a USB cable issue, even if I use right now a shielded one with an industrial USB hub in front of the scope (and all other accessories working well even during the interruption, like the CCD camera). Maybe it has something to do with the interface to the mount (which I hope is not the case, as I am not really willing to unmount everything to send in the mount ).
As for the errors, sometimes i get ReadInt errors, sometimes I loose one axis, but most often Autoslew starts to do the Software USB Unplug/Plug procedure, mostly without success.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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