Hi Jean-Yves, Wiggle and hold the housing in place and tighten down BOTH screws fully. I had a motor problem with my Mach1 and had a replacement within days of...
In a message dated 9/29/2007 7:35:45 PM Central Daylight Time, ... Is this normal? No. There are two screws that hold the gearbox down to the mount. They can...
In a message dated 9/29/2007 7:13:30 PM Central Daylight Time, ... The keypad works by sending software commands to the servo. If the command is not received,...
In a message dated 9/30/2007 9:08:18 AM Central Daylight Time, kag@... ... In this case it indicates a lack of power to run the motors at the fastest ...
In a message dated 9/30/2007 11:46:49 PM Central Daylight Time, ... Tighten them. There is no need to send an entire mount back because of two loose screws. By...
My mount is up a guiding! See: http://galiyano.com/images/M1-9-28-07.jpg <http://galiyano.com/images/M1-9-28-07.jpg> http://galiyano.com/images/M2-9-30-07.jpg ...
In a message dated 10/1/2007 1:27:42 PM Central Daylight Time, ... Great! Rolando ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ...
Thank you very much, done and ready! Cheers Jean-Yves ... I ... screws. By ... reset the ... internal spring ... tighten these two ... clever, yes? ... are ......
My new 1200GTO arrived yesterday and is now setup in my observatory (being sheltered from torrential rain... :( ) so I thought I'd say hello to the group. The...
Hi Folks, I've been trying to join the PWTech group for several weeks, but have not received membership confirmation from the moderator. Is anyone here a...
Hi, John: I am a member of the PWTech group, but I can tell you that it isn't very active. The last posting was on August 21, 2007. If you haven't done so...
Ben, Just wait until you put it into use. If you are impressed now, wait till you see this baby in action! I received my AP1200 last year and I am still...
Welcome Ben, I received my AP1200 in August (a truely amazing peice of equipment) and was fortunate to have clear skies the night I received it. I went from...
Mark, Glad to see you are really up and running. Nice pictures. If you are tired of using that 10" cement looking thingy how about trying a nice sleek white...
Congrats on your new mount. You'll love it. I once mounted my AP 92mm f/5 StowAway atop my AP1200GTO. It looked absolutely hilarious. Then again, the...
Bryon, Roland won't sell me a "nice sleek white tube", at least not one with optics in it, for a few more years yet. Anyway, my hunk of "cement" is 14" :)) ...
... absolutely ... John, if you think you are bad, try a Coronado PST on an AP1200GTO! :-) I do not remember where I saw such a setup involving the PST but it...
... I know of you from the UKAI group and I have to say the 1200 is a whole different ball game from the G11. No more bloody stupid multi star pointing models...
Hi Group, I had this same problem. My issue was using just the KeyPad could cause a runway. I had another issue with hooking a 2nd serial cable and using...
I guess it's time to make my 900 gto and laptop talk to each other... the dinosaur age is swiftly passing appreciate recomendations to all use of pulse...
I'm looking for a local GTO that I could visit in order to experiment with the serial port commands - they are based on the LX200 command set but there are...
Broose - I have my AP900GTO talking to TheSky6 and it works pretty well. Kind of odd on the whole parking thing but oddly, when I use CCD Commander to run...
Just to add my comments to the others already sent. I use The Sky Version 5 and it is fine. Do not forget the computer side of things - as I have been informed...
I use the sky 5, apgto cp3 and cp2 for me (two mounts) use a belkin and an IOGear USB to Serial converter with no problems at all haven't use pempro or...
Rick: I guide with the STV E-Finder at 1x and find it works fairly well. One or two images per roll will have slightly elongated stars, but most come out ok....
... other... ... Hi Brooze, Adapters: I never found the AP controller to be very sensitive to the serial to USB I used - it accepted them all and ran without...
