Re: [APML] Calibrating STV axes independently

[steve banbury <banburys@sonic.net>]

Hi Jim--I would have liked to still be away, but high winds blew me off the
mountaintop!
In the manual calibration mode, there are 3 options:
A) Relays 1234
B) Relays 12
C) Relays 34
I suspect my problem is in how I do these steps.
It seems that what you're saying is to do step B, and then do Step C.
Perhaps it was my sleep deprived mind, but it seemed that when I would do
that, and then select to Track mode, 
I would get an error message saying "Calibration not performed".

I would expect  I am supposed to press "Next" at the end of steps B and C,
and at completion of step C pressing "Next" would bring up the window to
review the motions achieved in each axis. That didn't seem to happen. I
ended up using "Auto", and ignoring the "Speeds" message.  Guidescope is
135 mm f2.8 telephoto, and what I wanted to do was 30 seconds in RA, and 10
seconds in DEC. resulting motions in "Auto" mode were 5 pixels in RA, and
25 pixels in Dec.

I'd be happy to take this off line if its of no interest to anyone except
me and Steve W.

Steve
(ps: If you check your other e-mails, I identified the flasher you imaged,
and sent you the relevant data)


At 11:43 AM 6/10/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>
>I've been away for a few days and just saw this thread.  My only comment is
>that it works for me.  I just select the first set of axis and calibrate,
>then do the second set.
>
>If it isn't working my best guess is that something else in wrong with your
>mount setup for calibration.
>
>Do both axis fail?  What is the failure?  What is your guide scope fl and
>are you doing a long enough move?
>
>Jim
>



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