Thank you Jared,
If I understand what you are saying here, I need to do a daytime run with both the sequencer window operational and the control panel displayed . I believe I saw a procedure for doing that in one of the posts awhile back, since I'm not sure of how to do that during the day. With Per's 10u driver the nudge keys for the telescope and the run button for auto flip are not operational ( greyed out ).
You are correct in that I was seeing "Time to Meridian" displayed, so I need to try everything again. At least this time around I was not getting the ascom exception error message and the time corresponded to what the mount was seeing. Before posting on this forum, I did read the posts by the fellow in Texas with the same mount. Hopefully, I'll be fully functional by the time he gets back and I can assist if needed.
You have a nice product here and I really appreciate the AIC presentation on You tube that you guys did.............. Gunny