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Originally Posted by frolinmod
I suggest leaving the hand controller in a box and only connecting it when you absolutely have to for some reason (which should be a rare event). In the history of Paramount mounts, the hand controller is the #1 source of oddball problems. The guider ports are #2. Read through the old paramount forum on yahoogroups.com. I place dust cover plugs in all three of these ports. (I realize the hand controller has gone through multiple revisions and that the current one is by far much better than the old one.)
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I use it all the time. For framing the image and lining up the next nights images with the ones already taken the night before. Its a fantastic little unit with the built in joystick and the adjustable sensitivity. You must use the move keys to frame your images in CCDSoft or Sky X?
I had an odd thing happen only once last night. I updated my Sky X to build 6249. I started CCDSoft to run my cameras as usual (not quite ready to add the step of Sky X running the cameras fully - soon) and
also connected the camera using the camera tab (I think this needs to be done to use automated t-point runs) and it all worked well for a while then I suddenly got an error message saying CCDSoft was no longer working and CCDsoft started flashing on and off the screen and I had to pull the battery to stop it.
I ran a clean up pgm to increase available ram etc and restarted it and all was well. But I did not connect the camera again in Sky X. Hadn't happened before with build 6248.
Greg