here we go again

[brrttpaul]

Feeling down in the dumps decided to have a last look at EQMOD, what I have noticed, in toolbox I register (success) and then I go to driver setup (which brings up the EQMOD interface). When I click search it comes back port not found but i noticed it takes a long time in the  search on port 2. So going through device manager (there is also no yellow exclamtion mark it says the drivers workin) I notice in the driver it says port two, hub 3 and in the advance settings COMM 3, should port and comm be the same? im guessing not. just a rough guess but does it sound like the lead ? im hoping all it is is the lead, but prefer an educated guess. cheers

[kens]

Have you tried to manually set your Port to COM3 in EQMOD? The port and hub in device properties are different things. COM3 is what you want/

[brrttpaul]

Yes I have tried that also (it was COM4 I meant not 3) 3 is in use. I manually put it to com 4 , it does sort of stall over 4 a while and thats it, its the prolific usb device thats loaded. 

[kens]

Are you using an EQDIR cable?

[brrttpaul]

yes hitecastro

[kens]

Starting to sound like the cable is faulty. One last thing to try is go into Toolbox, Comms Statistics, and test against the appropriate port. I'm guessing you'll get a COMn Message Timeout.

Has the cable ever worked for you?

 

[brrttpaul]

done that, im convinced its the cable, yes it worked fine for months , it only happened after I bought a CCD (before xmas) pretty sure i put the usb for the camera in the same port thats when all the trouble begun, 

[kens]

Ahhhh! Are you using a (good) powered USB hub? If not then you should go that way. Its easy to overload the hub on a laptop. I connect the laptop to the hub with an active cable to keep the signal level up. And the hub has a decent power supply.

[brrttpaul]

The only thing I have done different is before I used to use a 5m extension usb cable (bluerigger active ) something like that, it always worked, now because I got power outdoors I can run my laptop out the garden so no need for the usb extension . but it did work without the extension anyway when i first tried it out