Re: [APML]: Anyone Autoguiding a G-11 with a Pictor XT?

["Robin Casady" <rcasady@CarmelCoast.com>]

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>Are you using a relay box (or the Meade "solid state relay" box)
>between the Pictor and the G-11? If not that could be the
>problem. Pictor guiders have a voltage output rather than a relay
>output, and the voltage output has fried the mount electronics of
>many non-Meade mounts. Meade specifically states that you must
>not connect a Pictor guider directly to any non-Meade mount, else
>damage will result. 

We are not using a relay. I had heard about the Pictors damaging mounts, but
had heard that it only happened when they were both powered by the same
battery. We've been careful to use separate batteries. One of the mounts did
have some erratic responses, like PEC turning on and off. I guess we better
quit while we still have mount electronics in tact.

> Having said all that, if you don't have the relay box you may not
> want to get it...

Sounds like it might be easier to build a relay from scratch. That ST-4 is
sounding more appealing.

Thanks for the info.

Robin Casady
http://www.CarmelCoast.com

Casady & Greene, Inc.
http://www.casadyg.com