Failed to meridian flip after change the location

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My SGW failed to meridian flip after I moved my equipment to another observatory. It always worked fine in the previous observatory and the two observatories are not far. I didn’t change anything in the configuration. “Minutes Past Meridian to Flip” is set to 8 minutes (2 degrees).
HEQ 5
SGP 2.6.1
ASCOM 6.1 SP1
EQASCOM V2.00k

When performing auto centering, it looks the mount is not moving at all (but it works before meridian flip or I manually execute it after the meridian flip)
[04/19/21 02:21:35.479][DEBUG] [Center Scope Thread] Retrying auto center. Total Error > Allowable error: 1581.3 > 30.0
[04/19/21 02:21:35.479][DEBUG] [Center Scope Thread] RA Error: -1488.4
[04/19/21 02:21:35.479][DEBUG] [Center Scope Thread] DEC Error: -534.1
[04/19/21 02:21:35.746][DEBUG] [Center Scope Thread] Error in auto center update thread, Thread was being aborted.
[04/19/21 02:21:49.115][DEBUG] [Center Scope Thread] Retrying auto center. Total Error > Allowable error: 1581.6 > 30.0
[04/19/21 02:21:49.115][DEBUG] [Center Scope Thread] RA Error: -1488.6
[04/19/21 02:21:49.115][DEBUG] [Center Scope Thread] DEC Error: -534.2
[04/19/21 02:21:49.377][DEBUG] [Center Scope Thread] Error in auto center update thread, Thread was being aborted.
[04/19/21 02:22:02.799][DEBUG] [Center Scope Thread] Retrying auto center. Total Error > Allowable error: 1583.9 > 30.0
[04/19/21 02:22:02.799][DEBUG] [Center Scope Thread] RA Error: -1491.3
[04/19/21 02:22:02.799][DEBUG] [Center Scope Thread] DEC Error: -533.4
[04/19/21 02:22:03.080][DEBUG] [Center Scope Thread] Error in auto center update thread, Thread was being aborted.
[04/19/21 02:22:16.512][DEBUG] [Center Scope Thread] Unable to achieve results below allowable error (30 px) in 4 attempts!

log file
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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This is an issue with your sync settings, there’s tons of threads with the same proble so try looking through them for a solution.

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Thank you Xplode for the answer. I changed the sync behavior from ‘sync’ to ‘target offset’ according to another thread. I Will test and see if it works in the next clear night :slight_smile:

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Did you change your location both in EQMOD and in SGP?

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hi JeroenM, yes, both are changed.

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I found below line in the log

[04/19/21 02:58:04.935][DEBUG] [Center Scope Thread] Error in auto center update thread, Thread was being aborted.
No idea what happened.
But after I changed the sync behavior from “sync” to “target offset”, the meridian flip succeeded today.
I’m a bit worried if it is really resolved :frowning: