Gilles Gagnon replied to the topic 'ESATTO 2 Focusing Hangout' in the forum. 3 years ago

I am having the same problem with my Esatto. On autofocus, it does a first move and sits there with a wrong position in the panel. It should have moved 5000 steps but reports a position much less than 5000 steps away from original.

Not knowing how the driver works, it seems as if the driver reads the focuser position only once and waits for the focuser to get to the prescribed position, which it never does softwarewise but does hardwarewise. This, I would assume, would make the autofocus procedure wait forever as it thinks the focuser is not there yet.

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