I had my first night out with an automated rotator today, and alignment worked flawlessly. However, I soon ran into the situation where the rotator motion started pulling the cables to the extremes and I had to intervene.
Thus, my question.How is the reversal point defined and what is the suggested way of setting up mechanical zero in the rotator driver?

Having found out that the maximum limit that I can impose onto the rotator angle is 180 degrees, so I manually moved it to the extreme position (beyond which the cables are getting pulled too much), subtracted 180 from that, moved the rotator into the resulting angle (extreme -180) and set it to 0.
I think now it should not move beyond my extreme point, but will Ekos know to rotate into the opposite direction when the target camera angle requires so?

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