First of all let me apologize in advance for the length of the text below. I am hoping by being thorough in my description I can avoid many of the "did you try this" suggestions of things I had already done.
Hello fellow Paramount users! This may actually only be a question for MyT owners since the balance switches are two way. I believe they are 3 way on either the MX, ME or both.
On with the story...
I ordered the MKS6000 upgrade for my 2021 model Paramount MyT. Which, by the way, was working fine at the time of upgrade, also at that time was using a t-point model and PEC curve both built and applied by me. I got the kit in and read the manual thoroughly and watched the video. Was a little anxious since the video was on either and ME or MX (i can't tell the difference) and I was pretty sure the Dec shaft was not quite the same. Regardless, I forged ahead. Got everything installed. Followed the directions on setting the motor index angle (196 RA and 190 Dec) and was successful, or so I thought. After that, I got into the settings and tweaked my slew limits to be a little more conservative (0.10 and -0.10 instead of 1.5 and -1.5 on east and west) then I slowed down my slew rates from 80 to 50 and set my accel/decel to 250 from 400. I don't have a paddle so I couldn't use it to test slew limits. I then homed the mount... check. homed perfectly, right to the tape I put on my Dec and RA axes. Something I noted immediately which I thought was odd was despite the mount pointing at about 2 o'clock (~30 degrees past Meridian) the indicator on the screen showed the scope to be pointing right at the meridian. So, despite this I went ahead and set up to shoot for the night. I had a bit of trouble finding my target because the initial slew was also very much out of position on the RA axis, but attributed this to not having a pointing model yet. I went ahead and started shooting and went to bed. Early the next morning I walked out, and the scope had slewed well past the slew limit I set and had crashed the pier. The mount was beeping so I powered it down, unlocked the axis and manually set it in the park position till I could get home from work and check it. Once I got back to it, I could see that the crash happened during or right before the meridian flip. I thought I have must have forgotten to upload my settings to the mount, but when I went to "get" them they were all there just as I had set them. At this point I tried resetting the motor index angle again a few times. the instruction manual sent uses the method where you put the axes in balance mode and then "read" the motor index angles and then input them and save them. This was the method I used initially. Inside the software itself it says there is a MKS6000 mode where all you do is let the mount reboot and then tell it to read the angle indexes. When I tried this a few times I always got "error 231" I believe. I tried rebooting a few times and that didn't seem to help either. If anyone else has run into this problem and fixed it, please share! I'm stuck unable to shoot for fear of a pier crash until I can confirm I have resolved this.
Thanks!
-Scotty
