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Troubles with Moonlite Rotator

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So... looking at the focuser set up through SGP's Equipment Profile Manager... I see this:

Motor two is listed as both focuser and rotator. That's a little weird.

I can check the set position box, but it doesn't appear to be persistent. Nor does setting both the motor two entries to "Rotator."

MoonLite's documentation, such as it is, suggests that for the 2.5 inch rotator the scale is 115.833 steps... how that relates to 30 steps/degree, I'm not sure.

Using MoonLite's non-ASCOM driver, I got the thing set to 0 degrees of rotation, and indeed, the step position for that is just about 32K, 32764.

Oddly, the Control Panel "Other" Tab shows the Rotator, "Not Connected" even though, it is connected:

So, I've fiddled with the settings, and I have the controller set to thinking that the device is now at zero, so maybe that will get it, and me, past this confusion.

I really do appreciate your time, patience and help.

Karl

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