RononDex replied to the topic 'Meridian flip initiated but failed' in the forum. 8 months ago

I did some testing last night, with GPS disabled and kstars set to update all devices, and Meridian flip failed again.
Here is what happend:

  • Meridian flip triggers (still an exposure ongoing, it has to wait)
  • Once exposure is finished, meridian flip starts
  • Telescope moves extremly slow (as in Centering speed slow) during the meridian flip and moves in a wrong direction
  • I manually abort the mount movements and trigger a manual GOTO
  • Now the telescope moves fast, but misses the target slightly and overshoots (and does not stop moving further)
  • I again abort the movement and trigger a new manual GOTO
  • Telescope again moves fast (as it should) but misses target again and overshoots again
  • I stop the movement again
  • I stop the scheduler and delete / purge all the config of the mount in the Mount tab of EKOS
  • I trigger a new manual GOTO
  • Now it slews to the correct position and stops where it should
  • I restart the Scheduler and now it works

Relevant bits from the logs are attached, can anybody make any sense of it? The logs show a very active communication between the mount and EKOS for some reason ongoing during the whole flip. Not sure why.

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