Hi - I’ve used my CEM60 for several years with SGP and never had issues with meridian flips (or at least I can’t remember the last time I did). The only thing I changed was upgrading to the new stable build this past week and now it fails every single time. Anyone else having issues? My logs report the dreaded “ASCOM Telescope: Failed to flip because starting pier side and ending pier side are the same!” All looks ok in my settings, have Ioptron commander set to flip after 5 degrees and SGP set to flip before that at 2 degrees past (8 minutes). Time’s all seem synced up in handset, commander, and on PC. The mount attempts to flip and begins a slew and then errors out.
Hi - here is my log from last night below. There are two attempted meridian flips. The first one at around 21:15 was a test and the 2nd one at around 01:14 was my actual sequence for the night. Both failed. I watched both and all appears to start as normal with the flip box coming up and a slew starts for a couple of seconds before it stops and then the failure notification pops up. Crossing my fingers that someone sees something that may be causing my issue. Thank you for any help.
I’m going to be looking at using meridian flips in a while. I’ve got a CEM60ec. Which firmware were you on? I don’t want to upgrade to the latest one as there were issues reported with guiding, in any case I have a manual dome. I do want to do them with my travelling setup though using my IEQ30 pro so I need to practise,
I’ll add that I used the old firmware versions for a couple of years with no issues. It just cropped up this past week after I upgraded to build 457 of SGP. I don’t know why this latent bug suddenly decided to bite me.
I recently updated to the following s/w versions and in so doing have found the EC’s performance to be the best that I’ve experienced. I use PHD2 in conjunction with the mount with 4-sec exposures and a inter exposure delay of 1-sec. thus for approx 5-secs the encoders are doing their thing better than ever.
I’ll have to check next time I connect the hand controller. I know that just after I bought the mount people started have oscillation issues. Mine wasn’t affected because it had the previous firmware. I didn’t know if the issue had been fixed yet and, in any case I always have a fight with the ra and Dec board updates!
I have the CEM60EC on the latest firmware and have no issues with SGP or guiding. It’s been a solid workhorse for 2 years for me other than the AC adapter needed to be replaced recently.
Thanks for posting this! I was able to update the iOptron mount firmware (Mainboard, RA, Dec, and Controller), the iOptron Commander/ASCOM software and SGP before setting up last night. I watched the meridian flip closely and it all worked without issue.
You most likely saved me the headache of having older firmware and new software.
Thanks!!!