Guider Calibration Fails

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Having recently purchased Prism I am very happy with most of its capabilities so far (especially the excellent autofocus routine). However, I am having difficulty getting the guiding function to calibrate. I have tried many times with no luck. Each attempt has resulted in a series of vectors that do not remotely resemble a parallelogram. The failure messages that accompany each try have suggested that I increase the guide speed and/or the wait times. I have done both, with wait times ranging from two seconds to sixty seconds. I have adjusted the gear mesh of the mount and seem to have somewhat less backlash now, though I think due to the design of the mount there will always be considerable backlash remaining.

I am obviously doing something wrong. Any suggestions would be welcome.

Mount: Losmandy GM8/Gemini 2
OTA: Explore Scientific ED-127
Guide Scope: Orion 50mm 162fl
Guide Camera: ASI 1600MM
Process Controller: laptop/w Windows 10. Cnx to mount via hardwired ethernet

[Hamza Touhami]

please provide some screenshots of your guider settings and the calibration output image showing the parallelogram. Thanks

[phb]

Hi Hamza,
I have several small jpeg screen grabs. Tried to insert them here but there seems to be a limit of three images. I'll send more in next msg...
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Second set...
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Third set...
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[Hamza Touhami]

from the looks of it, one of these axes is reversed. I say this because you are supposed to come back to the original location. Let me investigate a little further.

[jason]

I had some errors this weekend that looked alot like this, any followups @Hamza Touhami ?
edit: I tore down my cem60 and tightened up the gear meshing adjustments per a document the manufacturer gave to some folks, today's crumby polar alignment and guiding calibration was pretty much a trapezoid - so it looks like ra play was big and I just never really noticed it's significance.