Dear Members, I am new on astronomie on OnStep, and I have first started with a EQ 3-2 and now I am working on a EQ-6 with RaspBerry Pi and OnStep-Controller. Here is a picture of my project: https://

hello, friends. for onstep, I use ramps 1,4 i made a new gear adjustment. i am getting the following error when creating a confession file. can you help me. what am I supposed to do. drivers a4988 ram

Hi Just started getting "Semaphore Timeout Period Has Expired" error message when connecting to Onstep and a ton of issues - mostly mount not resoonding to commands and at one point had weird values i

Good afternoon I just received my new Fysetc board and cant get the computer to recognize the board it makes the tone when I plug it in, but will not give me a port this is the strange part of the boa

Since raspberry pi's are impossible to source now without paying triple on ebay i found these little boards that are x86 and can run Windows or Linux. https://www.lattepanda.com/ In the US: $143 with

Hi, What is the highest current limit for LV8729 driver? According to the datasheet the driver can handle 1.5A and on my setup I have adjust it at 60% (meaning 0.9A). Can I adjust the current higher f

I have a Mel Bartels system on my 17-in somewhat heavy that I'd like to convert to OnStep. It uses 6 wire Nema 23s 1.8 deg steppers and each axis has a 60:1 gearbox and 42:1 roller reduction. I use th

Hi, I have converted Skytee2 to Onstep using MaxESP3. I have Omegon version. This build use Stepper Online 0.9deg step, 0.9A, Nema 17 steppers. Using 48:16 Pulleys Motor brackets were 3D-Printed Alt/A

So I ordered some TMC2209, I did not think twice about it untill I discovered There is a sea of versions. I ordered one with most orders on AliExpress as thst made sense to me but it seems I was wrong

I've had a MaxPCB 3.6 board running OnStepX for a few months now and things seem OK for the most part. I have a question about the RTC module. The PCB has the usual DS3231 layout as such: In the code

First, a huge thanks to the OnStep community for all of the help so far. Tonight is my first night of combined mechanical and electrical success! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJJGRtJXpgA This is so

Morning group, I have a Fysetc S6 v2.0 board with TMC 5160 drivers and was working great with what I had on the mount but lately, I added more weight (not a lot) and now it stalls when slewing and tra

I'm running 3.16 on a Bluepill and have recently tried an automatic meridian flip via APT which was unsuccessful. Reading through the posts it seems I need to set my pier side to East. Looking at the

Dear all, this is my first mail to the group. I updated an old EQ-6 (a black one) to a goto-Mount using OnStep. I buyed the OnStep-Boarrd and the OnStep-Hardware long ago, but the project was on hold,

Hi guys, I’m a little confused on how to order the MiniPCB2 board. I follow the link to order LCSC, which then has me sign in and when I do so I’m at their main page. Nothing in the cart, no way to se

Good afternoon guys, all right? Guys, first I apologize if this question has already been answered on the wiki or at some other point of the forum, I get a little in the way of English! My question is

After a lot of trouble-shooting, part of which required a modern oscilloscope, and much assistance from Ken Hunter, Robert Benward, and others, I finally got our MaxESP3.03 OnStep working as a re-buil

Hi All, Unfortunately, the plan to connect OnStep and SHC via UART has not been successful. I would like to connect OnStep 4.24 and SHC (ESP32S) via UART using TX6RX6 on the back of Teensy 4.0 as the

As some may recall, I was an early source for the STM32 blue pill and SHC kits and I have put these together out of remaining and newly purchased parts. They are excess to my needs (already have an eq

We are still wrestling with getting our OnStep rebuild of the drive on a massive, 50-year-old Ealing telescope mount. With a brand-new oscilloscope, we looked at the graphs of the output from the vari