I have a NexDome shutter motor kit from April of this year. I have not been able to get it operational. It failed several attempts to calibrate and although it operates, it will not work without several commands to open or close. It doesn't recognize the closed position but does recognize open. Has anyone else had these problems?
David Messier
I just upgraded my dome to the new dome rotation system and shutter motor. Everything is in installed and
working mechanically - meaning I can manually operate the motors, and shutter motor successfully opens and closes the shutter.
I have Beaver software and device drivers installed.
Accessing the shutter motor through the ASCOM Device Hub, it appears to think the shutter is open, even when it is closed.
When I tried to calibrate the shutter, it opened fully, but didn't stop at the open switch. It just pushed past the open switch and tried to keep going, making a dreadful sound when it hit the physical limit.
I manually moved the shutter to a partially closed position, and then clicked on 'Close Shutter' in the ASCOM Device Hub.
The shutter closed, and successfully stopped at the close switch.
However, the software still showed the shutter as 'open', and gave an error message that said the shutter had timed out during the close command.
While the shutter was closed, after some time it started up again by itself, and pushing down on the close switch, as if it thought it was still open.
Not sure if there is a problem with the switches, or with the firmware, or if there is some configuration step I am missing. I tried the Factory Reset option in the Beaver configuration, but that didn't seem to help.
I sent an email to Babak and am waiting for some guidance on how to proceed.
If anyone has any suggestions, that would be great.
-Paul.