[Logieberra (Logan)]

Guys, perfect, bloody perfect

Installed new 3V battery, cost me $7.00

No probs, site details stored in Gemini, and Alignmaster is my friend again...

But another issue has arisen - guider commands are not making it to Gemini:

- I am trying to setup my guider (60mm refractor with Star Shot Autoguider / AKA QHY5), Maxim DL5. I have bumped the timing settings way up to the max, 60 I think, but I still see no star movement, and minimal star movement in the statistics - with 'star moved less than 5 pixels' error each time.

- Likewise with PHD guiding, same setup, I bumped up the timing from 750, to 1200 to 5000 and nothing, not enough movement on the axises (it tries to calibrate West for 60+ movements and then the error comes up).

Q's:

- how can I check if commands are making it to the mount via the telephone cable to guider port? Could be a bad cable... I have spares lying around, but they are the white Telstra ones, same deal?

- do I have to have ASCOM / Geminitelecopecontrol up and running for the commands to work? I may have shut down Alignmaster now that I think of it, and Gemini control panel may have closed... or should the system work by simply plugging the phone cable into the guider port of the G2 unit?

I'm using the latest drivers for all software, the guider camera is taking pics and linking with PHD and Maxim capture screen for focusing etc, the issue is with camera to mount. And I have used these systems successfully in the past... which is the strange thing...

Probably an easy fix, but it's got me stumped.

Logie