Last night I had a dome malfunction and my equipment were exposed to rain for 3 hours :( What is the right way to recover? I mean, should I open the lock ...
No doubt Roland will tell me that this is nothing more than I shoud expect from an AP mount, but I never cease to be amazed by the autoguiding statistics of my...
... Probably nothing to worry about. But what I do when electronics get wet (circuit boards in particular) is soak and rinse in distilled water. This removes...
a common failure mechanism is dendrite growth on the exposed solder traces that got wet it can happen fast and it can be especially problematic for BGA type...
... Disgusting, isn't it? There is a never a day that passes bye that I do not pat my AP1200GTO for a job extremely well done the previous evening during an...
I also Flying RC model Helis and use LiPo batteries to power the model. There are some very good connectors we use in electric RC modelling which I employ for...
Hi, A month ago or so, I posted a thread at Digital_Astro group, on something I accidentally discovered - a really effective way of cleaning fungus from ...
I had a similar problem last month. I called AP and Christine advised that I needn't worry. Just let it dry out (out of the weather of course). cheers, Chris...
Hello, My name is Alan Voetsch and I've joined because I plan to have a new mount in place to carry my long focal length scope by next spring or summer. This...
Hi Richard, what routine did you use to polar align? I am in the process of (hopefully) getting my 1200 to permorm like your 900. thanks, Sandy ... last ... ...
the older 1200mounts are a bit shorter alan i have one of each and they work great you are right about the prices of them, they are getting better if they are...
Alan -- I think there are quite a few of us here who came from Meade fork mounts. You won't believe the difference. (For what it's worth, though, I'd go for a...
Richard, my piers are concrete with rebar & threaded rod embedded in them and while I suppose it would be possible to shorten them somehow, I'm sure it would...
Hey Jeff, I know. Many folks like to disparage the Meades, but look how many of us got started with them. They've always done what I asked and I have just...
Alan -- I do park mine horizontally. (Not because of clearance, but just because that's the only way I can reach the front cover to take it off!) From your...
Thank you all for encouraging me! The mount, scopes and cameras have been indoors for couple of days now. I'll put them back to observatory pretty soon and try...
Hey Jeff, When i finally got that link to work, I did not see anything that shows a top to bottom measurement, even in the normal configuration. Is anyone able...
Hi Alan, Over in the FILES section, find the "Latitude.." spreadsheet for the dimentions of both the 900 and 1200. FWIW, if you can live without goto, a 1200...
Alan, I could be wrong on this point, but I seem to remember the MI-250 goes a little past the meridian, and the AP goes way past the meridian without running...
Hey Rick, Excellent point, and yes, it is very important to me. Man, the AP mounts are pulling away. The trouble is that several folks are pushing the MI's on...
I think you will like the AZ and Alt adjusters on the AP900 much better. I almost went with an MI250 from a G11, but opted for the AP900 instead. Never...
The dimension calculator in the files section of the ap-gto group should give you the dimensions you need. Here's a link, but be advised that it may get...
In a message dated 9/2/2007 9:53:24 AM Central Daylight Time, ... The circuit boards in the CP1,2,3 servo controllers are coated and will resist any kind of...
Hi, Last night I was doing some imaging and the 1200 GTO was perfoming flawlessly. The autoguider barely had to funtion at all and pointing was as perfect as...
Simplest case first: Did you accidentally set the tracking rate to stop? ("8" button from main menu) Mag. 7 skies! Howard Hedlund Astro-Physics, Inc. ...
Hi Mark, Another thing to check: the spur gears in one of the drives...perhaps a set screw is loose (it happened to me with similar symptoms). Regards, Jim...
i have observed a problem that sometimes comes up with my newer mount (gtocp3): when tracking sometimes the mount slew speed gets used as the tracking correct...
In a message dated 9/4/2007 11:28:34 AM Central Daylight Time, ... What you have experienced is quite normal in the operation of a German Equatorial mount -...
On two instances now, my AP900 has failed to slew to a new object at the set 1200 speed. Instead it slews at 600. The keypad says the slew rate is set for...
Was the telescope connected to some other software? 3rd party software often has the ability to change the slew rate settings (amount other things). Since...
