Hi.
I have been busy building my observatory lately, and have not don any tests on my AVX for about a month and a half. I just finished wiring up my observatory and tested that the mount works, but found that parking was not working any more. I tried to park at alt 1, az 181. When I issued the command the counterweight was on the east side, and would have to move all the way to the west side to get the scope pointed at 181, but just as it passed the index marker the ra motar stopped moving. The Dec motor continued, pointing the mount downward.
I repeated this five times, resetting the mount to 'quick align' each time. Just to check I released the ra clutch and moved it to approx 181, and the scope pointed to the correct position, so looks like the dec motor moved as it should.
After resetting again I tried to slew the mount to a star close to alt 1, az 181, and the scope had no issue slewing there.
Also worth noting that when I tried to wake the mount from hibernation after the failed parking, I got 'Failed to sync to RA / DEC', and unpark failed.
I have my scope and servers at my remote location, so I wont be able to gather any more info until Friday, most likely. But I'm not quite sure what I should look for anyway.
Any help or debug tips appreciated.
/ Magnus
I have been busy building my observatory lately, and have not don any tests on my AVX for about a month and a half. I just finished wiring up my observatory and tested that the mount works, but found that parking was not working any more. I tried to park at alt 1, az 181. When I issued the command the counterweight was on the east side, and would have to move all the way to the west side to get the scope pointed at 181, but just as it passed the index marker the ra motar stopped moving. The Dec motor continued, pointing the mount downward.
I repeated this five times, resetting the mount to 'quick align' each time. Just to check I released the ra clutch and moved it to approx 181, and the scope pointed to the correct position, so looks like the dec motor moved as it should.
After resetting again I tried to slew the mount to a star close to alt 1, az 181, and the scope had no issue slewing there.
Also worth noting that when I tried to wake the mount from hibernation after the failed parking, I got 'Failed to sync to RA / DEC', and unpark failed.
I have my scope and servers at my remote location, so I wont be able to gather any more info until Friday, most likely. But I'm not quite sure what I should look for anyway.
Any help or debug tips appreciated.
/ Magnus