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Originally Posted by meade expert
Anyone find 3.33B01 firmware any good?  |
The 3.33b has the same problems as 3.32. Whilst the Star selection etc is better than 3.28b The prime function of Polar adjustment is still screwed up. I have no idea why they can get it right in an earlier version and then throw out what works and replace it with this piece of Poo!
The only other thing I have noticed is that (as stated in my previous posts) the handpiece reports odd things even after you do the polar align when you rinse and repeat it then gives you a whole lot of other error numbers. I would have thought that the numbers would get progressively smaller until 'perfection' but even after a 3 star align and the 3rd iteration It was telling me i was something like 17 minutes off in Alt (but only 3 secs off in Az). After correcting this making sure that the star was centered in my illuminated eyepiece I watched the star for 5 minutes and it remained rock steady in the center of the crosshairs. I asked the handpiece to do a Goto and it missed by miles. I then disconnected the handpiece and connected the mount to the computer. When I fired up Maxim's observatory and asked it to go to Acrux It was right there almost dead on the crosshairs in the camera picture. I adjusted and synced acrux's position in the observatory software and asked it to go to another target and it nailed it again. In fact every target was spot on! These were my best goto results ever, but notabley not from the handpiece. I'm at a loss for these inconsistancies, I plan to use the handpiece to do a 3 star align, Polar adjust, 3 star align, Polar adjust and then send it to home and use my computer software and EQMod from then on. If I do this I'll cut down my present setup times by half. I can only hope skywatcher get it right eventually as if it all worked as advertised it would be terrific.
regards
Paul