Gilles Gagnon replied to the topic 'ESATTO 2 Focusing Hangout' in the forum. 3 years ago

A bit more info that may or may not be helpful in finding and fixing the problem for the Esatto/Sesto Senso 2 focuser driver.

Just to make sure the problem was not residing in Ekos or between Ekos and Indi, I decided to test my Esatto focuser movements from the Indi panel only. I started from the 180000 'focused' position, set the absolute position input panel to 175000 and clicked on the set absolute position button. According to the absolute position panel, the focuser moved to an 'arbitrary' position between 180000 and 175000. Without changing anything, I re-clicked on the set absolute position button and the absolute position panel changed to 175000 without any movement or motor sound from the focuser. Did the same going back to absolute position 180000 and the behavior was the same: wrong position, click again, correct position displayed.

I wanted to do the same with relative position to see if the behavior would be the same but a zero relative position is, logically, not permitted. I would assume though that if the source of the problem and the solution are found for absolute position, the solution would be the same, or similar for the relative position.

Hope this helps.
 

Read More...