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Originally Posted by dtrewren
Good afternoon guys,
Ok, I have made a few modifications to the SharpSky firmware. To be honest one of these changes should already have been in but somehow slipped through the revision net. I have enhanced the way the temperature probe is being read by the PIC micro to make the read less invasive. The current V4.0 has an issue whereby reading of the temperature sensor interrupts the motor move (this should have been fixed). Also the sensor read was disturbing the operation of the manual control.
The new V4.1 firmware load fixes the motor interruption issue and makes the manual control much more responsive.
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Hi Dave,
Tried to send you a PM but your inbox is full.
I can confirm that the firmware ver4.1 has fixed the pauses and the manual control is a bit more responsive.
I will add two micro switches in parallel to the encoder though. not sure if it'll work. would that cause issues with too many interrupts raised to the PIC?
I was testing CCD Autopilot with focusmax and the sharpsky ascom driver and couldn't get the temperature reading. maybe its because focusmax isn't passing that through since you can't choose the ascom focus driver from ccdap direct.
CCDAP does temperature compensation so it applies corrections between subs and can refocus between filters, after a meridian flip and so on.
I will do some tests and post results.
Cheers
Alistair