Shand359

Hi there. Wonder if I can pick peoples brains here..... My friend built an AAF2 focuser for me some time ago and it worked well for a good amount of time. Now it seems that after a short time SGPRO is losing the connection. 1st thing to go is the temp readout, then the motor refuses to turn and focus my scope...... Like tonight this is what has happened. If I bring my scope indoors to test it tomorrow, I KNOW it will work ok for a short time then start doing the same again.....

A friend of mine was good enough to build me one of these focusers for my scope, and then I proceeded to basically blow it and my laptop up last Saturday due to my stupidity. Basically, to cut a long story short I connected everything up correctly and in the right order and then proceeded to connect the wrong voltage up to my USB hub. I blew up the hub, blew the Arduino, the motor board and the USB3 hub built into my nice shiny new laptop... Needless to say I felt like a bit of a prize idiot that night. The Laptop is away being repaired and should be returned next Friday hopefully (9th September). I reordered the damaged parts from ebay and repaired the focuser and its now back in 100% working order. It is a wonderful piece of electronics for controlling the focus. Don't know what I would do if I ever had to return to manual focusing.... lol

I just received my scope back after a friend assembled one of these focuser motors for me.... Works like a charm and looks a lot neater than I must admit I thought it would........

Glider, you still around on here....... Still got any of these USB controllers hitting about. I could be interested as my manual focussing is SERIOUSLY bad......