Thanks Gary for the info.
She has the Gen 2 hand pad. And it has the slide switch for 3 different speeds.
On the other hand, I have the Gen 3 on my scope.
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I'll check the labels on the front of the box.
Steve
On 04/21/2025 3:25 PM CDT K9RX - Gary via groups.io <amateurk9rx@...> wrote:
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Steve,
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Gen2 will use a hand pad - it has the 4 yellow buttons, a green button, and a blue one. The cord is a stereo 1/8" headphone type cable. Also on the front to the left it says PC PORT.?
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A Gen3 uses a hand controller (it has a microcontroller built in and thus has its own intelligence) with the 4 yellow buttons as well as 2 rows of 4 membrane buttons. The cable is a 4 conductor handset type cable. That front left connector says PC USB.?
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Date 4/21/2025 3:54:44 PM
Subject Re: [ServoCAT] Nexus DSC - object selection
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Thanks Mickey.
We bought this scope (used) a good number of years ago, so I am going to assume it is a Gen 2. Is there a quick way to determine the gen without opening the box? I don't want to do that in the middle of TSP. If something bad happens, then my wife will not be a happy camper this week. It is on her scope.
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Steve
On 04/21/2025 2:40 PM CDT Mickey Huffman via groups.io <finman42@...> wrote:
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Steve forward your comments to Serge the owner of Astro Devices, he will get back to you quickly. I copied him for you but now you have the info. There are too many variables for me to guess at, are you using the Servocat Gen 3 system with Nexus?
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Mickey
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Hi,
We have recently purchased the Nexus DSC Pro and tried it last night while at the Texas Star Party.
I have a question about selecting an object.
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We were in the Catalog Messier, and wanted M31 (or some other object currently up). We typed in the 3 then 1 and pressed OK. It returned some other M object information, not 31.
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Something similar with the NGC catalog. Request one specific object and a different NGC object is displayed.
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The first couple of objects we selected during the night were fine, no issue. But after some use, the above issue started happening.
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Any thoughts on why this is happening?
This is a new Nexus right out the box.
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Thanks
Steve Goldberg
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