AZ-EQ6 Pro parks only in DEC?

[oymd]

Hi everyone

 

Over the past few days I stripped the mount and re-greased it.
 

Yesterday, I fine tuned BACKLASH on both RA and DEC. 

There is no play now whatsoever in both axis.

I connected the mount in NINA, and slewed to all extremes in all 4 directions to make sure there is no stiction or issues.

Everything seems perfect.

The issue is: The mount will NOT PARK to the home position? DEC parks just fine, but RA does not park?

In EQMOD, I clicked the RESYNC EQMOD encoder button to tell EQMOD of the home position, but still no parking in RA?

I EVEN TRIED WITH THE KEYPAD, same issue  

Any thoughts on how to address this?

 

In EQMOD, I observed what sort of log comes up  

In the information window I could read:

Mount slewing to home position

Limit 32

 

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[scotty38]

I'm not being funny but have you checked the obvious and made sure you put/connected it all back together as it should be?

[oymd]

44 minutes ago, scotty38 said:

I'm not being funny but have you checked the obvious and made sure you put/connected it all back together as it should be?

Yes, absolutely.

The mount slews perfectly, and its smooth and there are no issues with slewing.

It just does not park in RA?

I am confident it's a software setting that is the issue?

Logically it cant be a mechanical issue, otherwise the mount would not be responding to slew commands in RA?

Edited January 18, 2022 by oymd

[scotty38]

1 minute ago, oymd said:

Yes, absolutely.

The mount slews perfectly, and its smooth and there are no issues with slewing.

It just does not park in RA?

Ok I was just wondering if the encoders were connected up ok or even not been damaged. I don't actually know what effect that would have but was thinking they'd have "knowledge" of where the mount is and could be involved with parking versus the motors just slewing as it were....

[david_taurus83]

In EQMod disable the encoders and make sure the limits are unticked. See if that solves it. The encoders are no real use if using EQmod and only cause conflicts.

Edited January 18, 2022 by david_taurus83

[oymd]

4 hours ago, scotty38 said:

Ok I was just wondering if the encoders were connected up ok or even not been damaged. I don't actually know what effect that would have but was thinking they'd have "knowledge" of where the mount is and could be involved with parking versus the motors just slewing as it were....

 

2 hours ago, david_taurus83 said:

In EQMod disable the encoders and make sure the limits are unticked. See if that solves it. The encoders are no real use if using EQmod and only cause conflicts.

Perfect.

Yes, I missed the tickbox for DISABLE ENCODERS. Once I unticked that, everything went well.

Many thanks