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I found out myself.
You can run the mount either through the Sky X as AP1600 in the mounts list or you can select Ascom mount. You setup the AP V2 driver and enable PE correction and have all your latitude etc in there.
Autoguiding is done in Sky X and use Pulse Guiding in the autogudier setup tab. That way you don't need a separate guide cable.
I redid PEC using Pempro. The mount was doing 3.5 arc secs and very smooth PE before PEC.
Applying accurate polar alignment works better than no adjustment needed in the Polar Alignment report in TPoint. 2nd time I have seen that.
TPoint says its about as good as it can get yet the accurate polar alignment routine has you adjusting both axes a reasonable amount then tracking errors really drop. I checked it with Pempro Polar Alignment wizard and PA was pretty close to perfect.
I am also getting better guiding with Protrack turned on (204 point model) just like I do with my PME.
Out of interest to anyone my autoguider settings that seem to work best are 5 second calibration times. 3 second guide exposures, aggressiveness 4, no delays, pulse guiding, no backlash. I am using an STi in a MMOAG.
I plan on doing a 300 point model tomorrow and perhaps refining Polar Alignment just that tiny bit or I may just leave it alone and use the bigger model for better Protrack corrections (slow flexes and slightly off polar Alignment corrections).
The AP1600 is more rugged than SB mounts. The slew sound is louder but the tracking is silent, no machine electronic chatter. The altitiude adjuster is a dream with a large handle and much easier to adjust than the PME or PMX although they aren't that hard. Azimuth adjusters are similar. Overall build quality is very high. The 2 axes split apart for easier portability but I wouldn't describe it as easily portable as its pretty chunky.
You don't even need to get balance exactly right as the axes are stiff and it says so in the manual. The motors seem to have a lot of grunt.
Overall easy to use and handle and it seems to be extremely accurate. I miss the home position of the PMX though. I moved the mount last night after finishing with it and forgot that this will lose my synch. Oh well, it does take long to resync the mount. The counterweight shaft is thicker than the PME. Roughly the same size as a PME perhaps a tad smaller. Nicer looking. Both are great mounts. I think this can handle a Planewave CDK 20 which is saying something as PME cannot.
Greg.
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