ASCOM LACERTA MOTORFOCUS, User Manual

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LACERTA MOTORFOCUS 20 2016
Turn on/off position usage in GotoSelect/Save Pos menu as initial position
after turning on the device.
FactoryReset:
Restore setting to factory default. Restart is needed!
Motor menu:
Cur.Hold.:
Setting of motor holding current:
160mA, 400mA, 600mA, 800mA
Motor holding current gets active one minute after last movement.
Cur.Mov.:
Peak of motor moving current:
160mA, 400mA, 600mA, 800mA
Direction:
Direction of motor revolution in Out direction. ( CW or CCW )
Clockwise or counter clockwise. To correlate the revolution of the motor wit the
focuser movement.
ASCOM mode:
LACERTA MOTORFOCUS is controllable by ASCOM compatible software on PC
(tested with Astroart 4, Astro Photography Tool 2.82, DSLR Focus V3, FindFocus
1.2.0.0, FocusMax 3.8.0.20, Maxim DL 5.15, SharpCap 1.5.0.344). After connection
the ’
A
’ character will be at the upper row of display.
ASCOM
reads current position of
LACERTA MOTORFOCUS , the measured temperature and the value of FocusMax .
All buttons on the handbox are functionable. Operations of different softwares are
different. E.g. the AA4, APT, FocusMax and MaximDL refresh position data every
second, so the position adjustment on
LACERTA MOTORFOCUS, the position
change appears immediately in program. Other tested programs refresh values only
after giving a command for movement to a new position, so you can’t see changes of
values on the PC screen after position adjustment on the device directly.
Some of
ASCOM compatible softwares support Backlash compensation and
Temperature compensation
.
If you would like to use
Backlash compensation
from PC software, set this value to
0 in LACERTA MOTORFOCUS menu! DSLR Focus, FocusMax and MaximDL use
approaching from one side method to eliminate backlash. Approaching direction is
adjustable (In or Out).
The temperature compensation function of suitable
ASCOM compatible software use
the feature of LACERTA MOTORFOCUS , which is activatable or not. Device settings
will be overwritten by ASCOM . Some ASCOM compatible software have a custom
algorithm for temperature compensation. If you would like to use this custom method,
set 0 value in
TempComp menu and deactivate TempTrack on device.