[ghealey56 (Geoff)]

Hi, I am a new member and setting up my gear and I am hoping someone else may have a similar problem. I am finding intermittent drop outs in tracking with my mount. I have it connected via the skyscan controller with a serial to USB connector. I have changed mount power supply, gone from using a hub to a USB port on my PC. No problems with any other devices. The drop outs occur withing minutes to several hours and independent of any telescope movement although I have moved all the connectors in use to see if I could trigger the problem. The USB to serial converter has a activity indicator and it shows data during the drop outs. The only log I can find is comms_trace and nothing there to indicate a problem. I will swapping over to a direct connect cable to remove the hand controller but I wonder if that will make any difference.

Any assistance / suggestions greatly appreciated, until I solve this I fear my success will be limited.

06:30:27.185 TX :j1
06:30:27.201 RX =51C97E
06:30:27.201 TX :j2
06:30:27.217 RX =806CA2
06:30:27.414 TX :j1
06:30:27.430 RX =39C97E
06:30:27.430 TX :j2
06:30:27.446 RX =806CA2

Kind Regards Geoff Healey
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