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Originally Posted by netwolf
so i was hopping to use USB to serial adapters and a serial to ST4 cable. I am guessing the ST-4 is a standard cable and can be used for both my Losmandy (digital drive) and LX90 (APM).
Regards
Fahim
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it doesn't matter where the signal comes from, only where it goes - ie using a serial computer port to drive an ST-4 compatible scope port is fine (ie both of your mounts). You do have to make sure however that the signal is being delivered in the same way as intended (ie is the serial stream being buffered and then passed to the ST4 port like an old style parallel port, or is it just being delivered piecemeal?).
The cables should be standard, but this implies that the ports on both ends of the cable have been wired to the same standard, as you'd expect from the shoestring parallel/serial adapters and the mounts.