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Ken, yes I saw a lot of posts on IIS and cloudy nights with guys having simliar EQMOD problems and the majority of the fixes were to replace the inferior prolific USB serial adapters with the Keyspan high speed USB serial adapter
Once I have the Keyspan my son who has 15 years in IT is going to come over on the weekend and look at the set up
Chris from The EQMOD Project recommends to use EQMOD tool box to confirm connectivity to the mount , then use your planetary program to navigate
Russ, I have the RJ11 to DB9 serial cable that came with the mount but I’m going to make my own up as I don’t trust it after all the trouble I’ve had getting this up and running. I have the wiring diagram for it from version 3 Synscan ( it only uses 3 wires, pin 2 Tx , pin3 gnd and pin 5 Rx )
I also have the Shoestring Astronomy USB2EQ5 custom cable if I give up on PC Direct mode with via the handcontroller and go with the more reliable method of EQDIRECT
Thanks again Ken and Russ for your input
I will let you know the outcome next week
Martin
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