About Skysensor 2000 software versions

[mrngbss]

Saw this ad on Astromart.

http://www.astromart.com/classifieds/de ... _id=502606

1. What does he mean by the last sentence, "only for different drive motors"
2. Can these be used on the SXW and SXD mounts?
3. What are the main differences between 2.06 and 2.10?

thanks.

[VinSnr]

I think the 2.10 version can be connected to a PC. The 2.06 version cannot.

I don't think this can be use for Sphinx mounts.

The Skysensor is great.....it actually allows you to polar align even without seeing the pole star! It can be use in alt-azi mode. Simply find your 3 alignment stars using that mode, GOTO a star, switch to eq mode and then watch the mount slew away from that star. Then just have to adjust your mount azimuth knobs and alt. lever to bring that star back to centre. Voila!, your scope is polar aligned!

[Meng Lee]

Yes, I admit I always use this lazy man's way of doing polar alignment.

I think "different drive motors" means MT-3 or MT-4 motors. Not sure also. Mine is version 2.10 and is MT-4 motors.

[David Lian]

May be you can look at SS2K yahoo group for some information.
See extract from SS2K.
--- In ss2k@yahoogroups. com, "csk_1975" <csk_1975@.. .> wrote:
>
> http://www.skyshop. co.jp/sinsatu. htm
>
> This site has a table showing which motor versions are compatible
with
> the various SS2K ROM versions.
>
> Basically if you want to upgrade from MT-3 motors to MT-4 motors
you
> will need to upgrade from ROM version 2.07-2.09 to ROM version
2.10. It
> seems that only ROM versions 2.07-2.09 works with MT-3s and these
> versions don't work with MT-2 or MT-4 motors.
>
> Finding replacement motors is a whole different story.
>
> If you can write Japanese you could try to arrange to send the
motors
> back to Vixen for service as they still repair them, although the
time
> you'll have to wait will likely live up to their glacially slow
> standards.
>
DL