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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Yes, well here are my thoughts.
Sky6 worked flawlessly, was simple and bug free. Never had any issues with it freezing up.
The mount. I have both a PME and a PMX. Kind of wishing I bought another second hand PME now. PMX has PMS; it sometimes comes up with the mount has hit something or needs balancing. The PEC software in Sky X appears to produce really inconsistent results. I have several curves that just do not gel with each other.
Things that do work flawlessly as the Tpoint add on and that works with my Scope dome and SBIG camera. Though the SBIG camera add on is not written specifically for the STXL series. So there are some glitches still.
I agree with Greg. Buy the AP1100. It is bound to be bullet proof. I cannot get my RC12 to guide smoothly with my PMX and quite frankly I am getting a little sick of being treated like I am stupid by SB. So right now I cannot complete final remote installation simply because it will not guide smoothly.
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Hi Paul,
Keep at SB, eventually you'll work out the problems. I finally have mine working pretty well. The out of balance error has several causes, mine turned out to be most of them, black drive belts that shredded, adjustment of the drive elements and finally a dud encoder on one of the motors. It took a good 12 months to work it all out, but just before Christmas I got a replacement motor for the RA drive, since then I haven't had a failure.
I agree that the SB method of requesting help through the forums is flawed, you don't feel that you are getting any attention of the various Bisques, just left to the experience of other users to sort things out. It just feels impersonal, when you have trouble that's not what you want, especially when you're on the other side of the world.
Cheers
Stuart