Hi Guys, Took my 8 inch scope for testing last night with the EQ5 mount. After increasing the motors Vref to 0.69V and carefully polar aligning and balancing the scope, the goto accuracy is dead on. A

Hello John, I didn't fully understand you question about clutch knobs. Can you elaborate on it? I will work on the polar alignment and balancing when I take my scope out this weekend. -Hemendra

How accurate does the polar alignment need to be for the goto? I'm just doing visual astronomy.

My pulley ratio is 2.5 : 1 (40 GT2 pulley on mount drive and 16 GT2 pulley on motor axis).

> Also, do you think reducing the micro-steps from 32 to 16 will > help? > > I don't think this matters. > > What is your pulley ratio? >

Hi Khalid, The RA and DEC axis move smoothly without the 8 inch OTA. When I put on the 8 inch scope, the RA axis slow motion knob becomes a bit stiff but I never expected the stepper motor would lose

Hi John, Khalid, When I said stepper motors were not hot, I meant they were slightly warmish to touch. Nothing significantly hot. My stepper motors are 0.9 degree Nema 17, 0.9A motors with an LV8729 (

Sure. I have access to a lightweight 120mm OTA. I will give it a try.

I have connected motors to the worms via GT2 pulleys and timing belts and the reduction ratio is 2.5:1. The OTA is quite heavy at 16.5lbs and the mount is rated for 20lbs. How do I verify if it is ski

I checked my configuration. It is set to 32 micro steps. How large the error was in your case? In my case the star comes near the outer circle of the finderscope. So I'm using the error is around 5-10

Hi All, I took my telescope out again for testing last night. The Wi-Fi connection is stable now and mount can now actually find the alignment stars with decent accuracy during the alignment process.

The issue got resolved after reflashing the firmware with ESP8266 board manager version 2.6.2

Let's say I will use the Stellarium Desktop. The app has a "sync" button. After slewing to the alignment Star I will press this sync button. The web server also has an "Accept" button next to the star

Hi All, Yesterday I took my Onstep based telescope for stargazing and I couldn't move past 2 star alignment due to Android app freezing and disconnection issues. I'm using STM32 black pill with Wemos

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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Hello Guys, Sorry for creating confusion but it seems like it was my RA axis that was wrong. I reversed it and now my Onstep points very close to where the object is. I have tested it with planetarium

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Hi Khalid, I reversed the AXIS2 (Dec axis) and the mount was pointing in opposite direction of the star. So the DEC axis is not the issue here. I reverted the changes. As suggested by you, I have set

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Hi Khalid, Both my Stepper drivers have R220 written on both the resistors. Here is the link to the video of my mount in action. https://youtu.be/9XCPzR37JYo I can make another one if details aren't v

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Hello John, Please find the answers to your questions below: First, very carefully balance the telescope and mount, both in RA and DEC axis. Stepper motors (and the drive train in general) will probab

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Khalid, My stepper motors are 400 steps, 0.9A. I have set Vref to 0.5V John, I will test the mechanics of my mount tonight and let you know. Regards, Hemendra

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