FocusMax & RCOS TCC -- FocusMax Will Not Close

[Matt Russell]

Anyone else have an issue with FocusMax NOT closing? It will even forbid Maxim to close. And eventually it will lead to a system crash.

It appears that it has to do with the connection to the TCC.... I've tried it both ways, using the RCOS TCC.exe and the RCOS_ae.exe.

If the system doesn't evenually crash, I need to kill the process in taskmgr.

In my startup script, I AM connecting to the TCC temperature object and turning on the primary cooling fans.

So several questions....

- Anyone else experiencing this issue?
- What do you have in settings for FocusMax -- Connect automatically? I like to have FocusMax turn on/off the Temperature Compensation

Note, I do not use the Aquire Star feature within FocusMax.

Thanks.

[Matt Russell]

I figured it out....

I have to force some settings in my shutdown script:

'FocusMax settings
Dim FMx
Set FMx = CreateObject("FocusMax.Focuser")
'Since we have a link, we can do some things...
If FMx.Link = True Then

If FMx.TempCompAvailable = True Then
FMx.TempComp = False
End If

If FMx.TempComp = False Then
Console.PrintLine("FocusMax Temp Compensation has been turned off.")
Else
Console.Printline("**** FocusMax Temp Compensation has not been turned off. ****")
End If
End If

FMx.Link = False 'disconnect to the RCOS focuser

[Bob Denny]

Good work!! Usually there is a "right" answer to these things :-)