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Mav359

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  1. Happy days. Cheers for all your efforts Grant
  2. Grant thats done and i have PM'd you Cheers
  3. if i book the main days now, can i arrange with Lucksall the rest if i want to stay the rest of the week 20th?
  4. Grant is there anything left for a Motorhome??? i completely forgot all about it. Cant believe it
  5. Cheers grant i'll chase up friday
  6. sweet i'll book up friday. whats the word on booking the whole week Grant, book the SGL days on FLO or just book it all with Lucksall and let you know? Cheers
  7. Hey guys Been completely off the radar this year its been crazy are there still places for this year?
  8. Anyone seen my DSLR power Supply ???

     

  9. Hi guys Yes another big thumbs up to Bernard & Modern Astronomy, recently bought a QHY5-II & a QHY Polemaster off him, i'm fortunate enough to live close to him so he's been good enough to let me pick up my items (by appointment) from him. He's always been very infomative both pre & post sales. Thank you Bernard
  10. Just eaten wat to much indian

  11. Just bought Polemaster, Cloud incoming.... Sorry :embarassed:

  12. Bench testing my new laptops battery power with APT & PHD running to see how long it lasts and whether i need external power..... 1hr and counting

  13. Makin dew tapes

  14. Hi Guys Sorry but i am being extremely lazy, i tried reading through the post and went a little brain dead so i'm just gonna ask the question.... I have had my focusers for my C9.25 & Mak127 for a couple of years now based on the original SGL Yahoo group and they have worked brilliantly, took a while to get a system working, i have to plug in the USB first wait a moment for the Aurdino to boot then plug in the easy stepper board. They work great, little dated with a bigger stepper motor and the easy stepper board but all good. The software i'm using though is the original SGL Yahoo group software which whilst it works is a ok at best, so where are you guys at on a software front and will my easy stepper board work with anything thats has been developed from here?
  15. Great idea and a great work so far Id be interested in hearing more feedback about the CAT6 USB extender, would potentially solve a lot of my issues. Have you tried a USB Hub with it, ease of use, link for the one you bought etc Cheers
  16. The Squirells have chewed through the mains line upto my OBs, just as well it was powered down :-(

  17. Once again Gina WOW I think NASA said they need help with a mars landing when you finished this project. Any chance of your own website with all your wonders and how-to's so we can shamlessly copy all of them :-)
  18. Evacuated the OBs, 60ft tree outside the gate is deffo gonna go and im hoping it don't come this way!!!

  19. I used that one simply because it was the one in the documentation of the SGL focuser when i first did this for my SCT. They need a bit more room but they have a longer shaft and they deffo have more power, the torque at higher speeds moves the focuser assembly if its not secured. Works with the easy stepper board The other thing i like was that it number of steps in a revolution is quite high and it has very smooth motions at the right speeds. From one end of my focuser to the other on my SCT took 331350 steps :-) The only downside is at the moment i can't use Dave's aurdino sketch because it doesn't currently work with the Easy Driver and i don't know how to mod it. Its still ASCOM compliant on the older sketch and works with all the 3rd party software.
  20. I went with this one simply because id use them before and it worked so i just went again. They also do a bracket for it which i bought to use as a template https://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/stepper-motor-with-cable.html
  21. Hey Dave been speed reading this since the last time i look at the post. My focuser is completed and working using the original SGL documentation and the stand alone software and all is working fine. I have tried uploading the sketch and it does upload and the software installs fine however its not working. I think the problem is my setup uses the Nano which connects to an easy stepper board via 3 pins and that in turn connects to a 4 wire stepper motor. I don't know where to ammend the pins to tell the software or if its even that simple to change. Any Ideas Heres my focuser on the MAK Great work by the way
  22. OBs roof repaired & upgraded, Scope in and ready...... Clouds :-(

  23. Why is the weather after a star party always rubbish, chomping at the bit here :-(

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