The focuser is based on Arduino Nano board and ULN2003 driver board off the ebay. It supports Moonlite focuser protocol with the following improvement and limitation.
- Dual channel focuser controller by single Arduino Nano chip
- ASCOM Local Server drivers are also provided
- Using AccelStepper library, to provide speed acceleration and deacceleration, to avoid slippage. There is no noticeable slippage at highest speed. At contrast, Moonlite focuser slips even at lowest speed.
- Provide 0.125 degree temperature reading accuracy, as opposed to 0.5. It also provides compatibility mode (ie. 0.5 degree).
- Hardware controlled TempComp (Moonlite uses driver), with programmable trigger (temperature drop).
- TempComp only tracks temperature drop. When temperature goes up over hysteresis limit (which should be very rare), it will report an error.
- HALT command is implemented but it does not stop focuser right away, instead it will move some time more (depending on the speed)

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