Failure to Complete Slew
Monday, September 24, 2018 9:56 AM
Problem(s) Encountered:
The telescope rather frequently fails to complete a slew -- it just stops somewhere midway and rotates the dome to wherever it''s pointing. The cure is simply to re-send the coordinates and send it again. I didn''t notice any obvious error message except that the telescope wasn''t pointed where it was supposed to be.
Solutions:
Cause or coincidence? “I figured out why the telescope was stalling in mid-slew, or at least a correlation. I often start slews before turning off the guider, because it used to not make any difference. If you do that with the new TCS, the slew immediately hangs. [Thorstensen]