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Subject: Re: [M]: Pictor 208 XT and exposure time
From: Harald Kerscher
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Sat Dec 06 06:26:16 1997

Gene J. Stratton wrote:

> Harald;
> Was the problem that the receive and transmit pins were swapped (2 & 3, I
> believe)? That would mean it was wired as a DCE instead of DTE
> device...still valid, but not matching most pc serial ports. Used to have
> that problem a lot in the old days, but not so much anymore. Just curious.
> gene stratton

Hello Gene,
afterwards I am not sure, if it wasn’t my fault. Meade wrote in the user guide
about a black coil cable. But I got only two flat “serial cable”. I thing I
took the wrong one to connect with the notebook. It was the twisted cable. Now
I know, it is supposed to use between the Pictor and the telescope. So far I
didn’t used the autoguiding, but I hope I changed it back the same way as it
was. I’m a little bit confused. In the user guide appendix B there is the
pinlayout of the CCD-Port and every pin is used. But in the serial plug there
is one cable (blue) cut off.

I hope the weather in Germany gets better to try it out.

Clear Skies

Harald