Communications Errors

This group box summarizes the errors detected by the driver.

Retransmits: The count of the number of times a command needed to be resent.

Receive Errors: The count of the number of times the driver detected a received command was corrupted.

The following three error fields only become visible when one of the errors occur.  

Motor Stall Detected: occurs when the motor is stalled. Make sure the telescope is well balanced. This error may occur if you disconnect the RA/Dec cables from the controller to the motors.

Low Power Voltage Detected: This will occur when power is removed or voltage is too low for the mount to operate correctly

Servo Fault - Please contact Astro-Physics: This error may occur if you disconnect the RA/Dec cables from the controller to the motors. If you did not disconnect one of the cables to the mount then contact Astro-Physics for help.

Reset: Click this button to clear out all of the errors.

Note: You can simulate the Motor Stall and Servo fault errors by disconnecting the RA/Dec connector from the control box. You can simulate Low Power by shutting off power to the mount.