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Old 20-10-2014, 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Merlin66 View Post
Andy from the PHD2 team has replied:

PHD2 will attempt to send small pulses in the 1-10 ms range to the mount. Some mounts are able to honor these small guide pulse commands; but, if the guide pulse duration is too short for the mount, the mount ignores it. The tracking error accumulates, and PHD sends a larger pulse. In this way PHD and the mount can reach a kind of equilibrium to achieve tracking performance close to the error that phd2 can measure on the guider chip and the smallest pulses that the mount can react to.
That makes sense, the actual mount movement doesnt matter really, given setting agressiveness is a suck it and see excercise, and as above, if a correction is too much/little, the next one compensates.
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