Nick, I struggled with the selection of motors, gearboxes, pulley ratios, and microstepping. I wanted to use NEMA 11 motors to keep the implementation compact, but it comes down to torque. I used the

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GPS is working too: GPS ATGM336H https://es.aliexpress.com/item/4001231041731.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.5e4463c0KirC7O PPS seems to be working ok. In my case, the GPS cannot get a connection when ind

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First of all, thank you for everyone who helped me get through this. Countless times have I thought of giving up but thanks to your help i have persevered. Thank you to Howard Dutton for the fantastic

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Yay we figured it out, thanks for your help! :D I'll explain what I did wrong: When I had to flash Onstep the first time I tried it using windows. Windows kept installing the wrong driver which perven

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Hello Guys, I did some more testing with my mount today. After reversing RA axis, go-to feature works fine now and the mount can find objects. I also enabled MICROSTEPS_GOTO (set to 16) and set the de

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George Cushing sells kits and assembled kits at this link OnStep Controller Kits (stmbluepillkits.com) But you still have to do the mount's mechanical conversion yourself.

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Open Source means you do it yourself. You are asking for someone to everything for you and no one here has the time or skills. Every telescope is different and every person wants different things. The

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True... but I'm reasonably certain it needs to be grounded and if it's not grounded "odd behavior " can happen.

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You are absolutely correct, I was planning to use 12t on both axis, but in order to get the right tension on the timing belt I had to swap with a 16t on the RA axis. I might order a shorter belt later

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In my case, it does not matter which pulley the magnet goes on. But that is a special case, because my pulleys are 1:1. In any other case when the pulleys are different, the magnet MUST go on the pull

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The screws used to fix the MT1 motors on the Vixen GP are M6. I'm using the same screws to attach my (makeshift) motor mounts. I just found by accident that in the "files" section there's a 3D printed

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How I do it.

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If your setscrews are not capable of reliably driving your scope you have possibly two problems. The first is your shaft has no flats machined on it. You can machine one with a file. Or a Dremel tool.

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Are you talking about setting latitude and longitude coordinates? If so, how long are you waiting between when you upload and when you switch off (because OnStep has a 5 second delay before it flushes

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Sure , I'll take a picture tomorrow and post it here.

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Otto, Thanks for sharing. Your conversion is in the showcase now. Yes, we need a table somewhere on what specific x driver goes with y board, as it is not obvious. In the meantime, users can either lo

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I found a set of 60T with 6mm bore from Greece. Shipping was pretty fast at ~2 weeks, though by the time they arrived, I had found a supply of 60T, 6mm bore but no flanges, here in the US. Actually, I

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Dear all, I'm going crazy with the star alignment... after the polar alignment made manually (seems quite good), I try to point something from stellarium or APT, the telescope goes in the correct dire

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Hi everyone, I have a question to ask you ... then setup with computerized mount with onstep ... ascom driver to manage it with APT and stellarium (only for aesthetic reasons) ... Problem: if I make A

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Looks like the controller's driver MOSFETs failed. Odd, those Motion King tin can steppers only draw 0.35 - 0.15A when tracking.

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