I have solved the mystery !!!
This piece of wood was where my second actuator was fixed, the length of it was calculated precisely to not hit the camera.
However, as I have swapped the filter wheel for a filter drawer and added an OAG, this has changed the length of the imaging train...
The red arrow shows the mark the Atik made on the wood, the weakest point was about in the middle of the telescope, ie: the focuser bearings.
So glad only a tiny little bearing snapped, this could have been a very expensive self inflicted mistake !!!
Oh and I do really like my box, so easy to do maintenance on it.
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One of the four bearings within the focuser draw tube snapped. I must say, for such an expensive focuser, the bearing used are cheap... very cheap.
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Last night on closing the box I heard a crack, as in something snapping. A sound that I never heard in my box but didn't pay much attention as it was quite late, maybe 1 am or so...
Well today I tried to take a 10 sec picture and the stars were out of focus, quite strange as I had it focused last night... and I could also see star trails on a 2 sec picture... at that point my frustration goes into overdrive !!!
Let me test the polar alignment, and it was off again by a mile... of ffs here we go again, so I start re-aligning the mount. As the mount goes through the motion of slewing I heard something moving, and this is the point I realise that the all field flattener and imaging train is moving. Sadly it wasn't just loose, that snapping sound I heard last night came from the focuser (Baader Planetarium)... 
Something broke so now the focuser is inoperative.
And to add salt to the wound, I shouldn't have attempted to re-align the mount, due to the imaging train al wobbly, of course my alignment will be off... 
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I'm going through the options of the EqMod driver and I see that you can set the backlash, now how does one set this up and what exactly would I gain from it please?
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This is my
driver
[url], I'll collect some logs tomorrow.
As for the dome... it's a box, just a simple box with a lid 
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Summer is off for me, 0 astronomical darkness, and my observatory was offline due to a network issue. The router had the firmware upgraded, lost all my settings... so lost connection to the box.
I also wanted to quieter the box, which is now done. And gone OAG (so far so good, guiding to be tested... maybe tomorrow)
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In my last polar alignment session, I was able to do
0°0'12"
well I am not going to try to best it.
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Obviously after all
the work
I've done at the observatory the other day, a polar alignment was needed... It took me while to align the box again, once I was close enough I fired up the polar alignment tool... I think after 4 tries I was getting very close and on the final one I got it quite spot on.
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G_Gagnon wrote: Vey nice remote observatory! Wondering what you use as outside panels. They seem light and water resistant with the added bonus of not requiring painting.
Thanks.
Thanks, I use some aluminium composite material panels for the box, the frame is wood.
All panels can be removed with strict minimum effort.
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Something's not right there...
Dome policy:
[INFO] Warning: Telescope parking policy set to: Telescope locks. This disallows the dome from parking when telescope is unparked, and can lead to damage to hardware if it rains!
EqMod policy:
[INFO] Warning: Dome parking policy set to: Both. This disallows the scope from unparking when dome is parked, and tells scope to park if dome is parking. This will disable the locking for dome parking, EVEN IF MOUNT PARKING FAILS.
Well, I have issued a Park on the dome, and the mount did not move an inch.... I'm glad the abort button works....
latest indi stuff on the server and Kstars 3.2.0 (laptop, not running latest one yet)
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sterne-jaeger wrote: Strange! Do you have an idea where the call to SetSpeed() comes from? Is the parameter stored in the config file?
Haven't got a clue about this setting, it won't affect me as I do not really have a dome... it's just a box with a lid
But I needed this value in my driver to get it working with the latest indilib.
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