Mick J

ooops, I should have looked a little closer, 11:1 of course.

Here's a quick snap off my phone, 9v battery box stuck to box containing motor etc. I have changed this now as added short usb cable and made connection onside the box. Easy to adjust belt tension using washers on the mounting.

I guess you have to try it and see. I know from your other posts you are going for direct drive 1:1, our setup is much like wuthton - 20 tooth and belt, about 3:1 (wuthton post #146). Not much of a modification for you to adjust the bracket if you have to. As above a bit more grunt from the motor with the additional 9volt battery.

Good work Wuthton, still working towards a very similar mounting, off the end of the dovetail. Nice to know APT will work with it, always pleased to see a nice veil picture as well.

A quick general question, when I had mine lashed up on the kitchen table I found it would run with the switch in any position or without the switch (off), and without the battery. Took me by surprise and I had to double check my connections, I can see the battery and the on/off switch are there for the motor end, the nano end is powered from the usb and will power it all if it is not unplugged. Am I being oversensitive thinking that it may be nice to be able to turn it all off. I have found a usb cable on ebay with an inline switch (for pie's) may give that a go. Thanks, Mick

Looks very good Robert, is that a separate battery box mounted on the motor/nano box ? Just received my 80x60x40 box in the post and thinking about cramming it all in and how it's mounted, may have to copy this.

Short YouTube here, show the cocktail stick in all it's glory

Lashed the bits I have got together and ran the software, all works, motor turns Just have to find a box to fit it in, 80x60x40 as the parts list looks a bit tight, I have one on order, we shall see. I think the switch with neon I am using here may have to go. Mostly I am surprised at how cheap ebay nano's and stepper motors are if you don't mind waiting on delivery.

Fat on yesterdays success with getting the driver registered I connected the nano up (still to assemble the other parts), Ran the AAF2test and the FocusAAF2 to see if there were any problems, as you can see from the screen grabs all is good. Next up a loose connection of motor/battery/switch, be nice to see the motor turn (can you see it turn?) then figure out the mounting.

Have parts for this project coming, started to install the software side on Win7 32bit netbook, not comfortable with code and cmd commands and spent some time getting the driver dll registered, big stick to windows again and a lot of running around in circles. Eventually putting this in the cmd command box worked for me, see pictures C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\RegAsm.exe "C:\Program Files\AAF2\AAF2\ASCOM.AAF2.Focuser.dll" /codebase Don't ask why I added the /codebase tag at the end, I spotted it on the net somewhere and it got included by default, doing it again I would leave it off, (not sure what it's doing) I found I could not run the installer as administrator then found something on the net, modified the registry, created a menu that gave me the option, but still the dll was not registered. (I may have missed something). So now I have to start fitting parts together, have the nano and managed to add the sketch to it. Thanks for your work on this, I am finding it an interesting and challenging project, first time with Arduino etc.