Gday Logan
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1. Encoders on axis. What are they for? If you bump the mount, it never loses its place? Or for absolute unparking/parking each night?
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The encoders are "relative" but it sounds like they may also have a track on them such that you can determine which side of the encoder you are on
ie like an encoder with only 2 halves.
The latter appears to be used for finding home.
As to the encoder itself, when ON, it constantly resets the motor microstep count if it gets out of synch with the encoder count.
This is non linear and means your pointing accuracy is only going to be within say 4 arcmins. So if you do bump, or manually declutch and move, it will keep track of where it is. It "may" have some nasty little gotchas if used with EQMod and no handbox. I cant test as i dont have an AZEQ6 or EQ8, but my AZEQ5 always defaults to encoders ON when booting without a Hbx and as such, i get the occasional "jump" in position for no reason.
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PEC. How does Pempro V2 go with these mounts? Any tips?
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For writing the PPEC table not sure.
The PPEC is controlled totally in the motorcards, and the earlier EQ8s were reporting a wrong microstep per worm rev count, and hence the PPEC may not record properly. You may need to suck that one and see.
Andrew
Ref
http://www.dangl.at/ausruest/eq8/eq8_e.htm
for a writeup by an early purchaser