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Re: Subsitiute for the SKysensor 2K

Christopher Erickson — Thu, 23 May 2013 21:47:46 GMT

All SS2k and newer Vixen GOTO systems are servo. The old Skysensor and all Vixen dual-axis motor systems are stepper. -Christopher Erickson sent wirelessly

Re: Help! New battery does not work in my Skysensor

Bo Sandström — Thu, 23 May 2013 21:34:03 GMT

Hi, Just be careful with static eletricity, it doesnt have to be voltage enough for a spark, even a moderate overvoltage can destroy a CMOS IC. So make sure

Re: Help! New battery does not work in my Skysensor

nicolas kratiras — Thu, 23 May 2013 21:07:37 GMT

I am certainly not an expert on this device but did you try a reset of ss2K? Nick From: dennis.kung To: ss2k@yahoogroups.com Sent:

Re: Help! New battery does not work in my Skysensor

dennis.kung — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:21:46 GMT

Hi, The chips pins go through the PCB directly. I am going to reheat each pin to see if that helps. Thanks Dennis

Re: Subsitiute for the SKysensor 2K

dennis.kung — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:05:52 GMT

Thanks! This gives me hope. :D Are Vixen mounts using servo or stepper motors? How could I tell if mine is servo?

Re: Help! New battery does not work in my Skysensor

Bo Sandström — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:52:35 GMT

Hi, There may be a cold solder joint on any of the memory pins. There are a lots of address and data pins and some enable and read and write strobe pins . If

Re: Subsitiute for the SKysensor 2K

Christopher Erickson — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:11:00 GMT

The Sidereal Technologies Servo Controller and Servo Controller II can use the Vixen servo motors directly without modification.

Subsitiute for the SKysensor 2K

dennis.kung — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:18:06 GMT

Hi, Given the expectation that sooner or later the SS2K is going to fail and it is no longer being sold and supported by Vixen. If the SS2K dies, my mount

Re: Help! New battery does not work in my Skysensor

dennis.kung — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:04:27 GMT

Congrats! It's working for you! No luck for me. I found the memory chips IC61C256AH. There are 2 on the PCB. The Vcc-Gnd has a voltage of 3.15V. So they

Re: Help! New battery does not work in my Skysensor

Bo Sandström — Wed, 22 May 2013 22:12:15 GMT

Hi, The discharge characteristics of this type of battery is very flat, going from more than 3.6 volts to maybe 3.1 over a long time. When its empty it plunges

Re: Help! New battery does not work in my Skysensor

Nick Lewis — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:27:21 GMT

It’s probably worth spending a cloudy evening documenting all the configuration settings you have in it before the battery actually fails, by the way. I wish

Re: Help! New battery does not work in my Skysensor

Nick Lewis — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:20:44 GMT

Well, it's in and the SS2K's functioning again. I've switched it on and off a couple of times and the basic date/time &lat/long settings are preserved. Now

Re: Help! New battery does not work in my Skysensor

nicolas kratiras — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:36:23 GMT

Thanks Nick, I know it's not practical to re-enter the parameters every single time. The reason i asked this question was that i needed to know if ss2K

Re: Help! New battery does not work in my Skysensor

dennis.kung — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:34:01 GMT

Wow. That's a long battery life! I guess it depends on the manufacturer then. I think Xeno isn't as good as the original. Let us know how it goes for

Re: Help! New battery does not work in my Skysensor

Nick Lewis — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:24:50 GMT

As far as I can tell, it does. But you have to enter at least date & time, latitude & longitude, and you’d have to record and re-enter things like backlash