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Hi, Sorry the fault is still occurring. Here's the log:
I'm afraid I didn't get the time of failure but it was running for less than 2 minutes.

Cheers Robin, I'll give it a look.

Cheers Robin. I'll test it when it comes out.

Hi Robin, this is the response from the EQMOD group: Only if sharcap issues a command that requires a change in mount position or tracking rate will there be any additional comms to the mount. If sharpcap is simply polling for driver capabilities, status and position then this adds no overhead at al...

Hi, thanks Robin. Let me know when you want me to test with the reduced commands. Do you mind if I quote your reply over at the EQMOD group?

Hi Robin, just finished another bit of testing. I was running just Sharpcap and EQMOD with verbose logging switched on. The PEC tracking failed within a minute of me starting it. The time of failure was 18.06, sorry i couldn't get it more precise. I can test it a bit more if you need me too. I didn'...

Cheers Robin, like you said I don't think the plate solving is the problem because I didn't use that during testing. I'll do some more testing and get back to you. As the pec is varying the ra rate could it be a case of Sharpcap not recognising the tracking speed?

Hi, It's a repeatable bug by the way. It happens everytime I try to use PEC with the mount connected to Sharpcap. Chris Shillito at EQMOD has had a look at the PEC file and can't find anything wrong with it.

Hi, I don't use the mount controls in Sharpcap apart from the Plate solving button. When I was testing indoors I didn't press that. I'm not sure if it helps but the tracking fails in EQMOD when the PEC tracking rate is the same as the default RA rate (15.041067). It doesn't fail everytime the PEC ra...

Hi, When using PEC with EQMOD the tracking stops when used with Sharpcap. I'm fairly sure Sharpcap is at least part of the problem as PEC worked fine for about an hour when just using EQMOD, and the same when using EQMOD with Stellarium. When I opened Sharpcap and the mount connected, PEC ran for a ...