I had a recent message about this blog, good to know I haven't been writing into thin air!.. and of course I've added nothing for too long.

So.. where are we?

1. Mount functions:

Slew works

Guiding Works

PEC kind of works.. I have a new PEC algorithum which should improve things.

Park, needs adding

GOTO needs adding, software written with this in mind.

2. Drive needs propper PCBs and dsPIC in the base to allow GOTO (spherical maths, needs sin/cos/tan)

3. Base unit needs boxing up.

4. Hand Controller needs the backlight working, not currently wired in.

5. Hand Controller needs boxing.

Performance: Primary concern is the performance of the mount itself, so I plan to strip down the RA worm and rebuild with new bearings and new bracket, with a bit of luck things will be much improved, currently its 15 arc second peak to peak over a single cycle plus an additional 15 arc second peak to peak cycle to cycle, and it's rough. It's the roughness that's the biggest concern, followed by the cycle to cycle variation.

Derek