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Re: Camera pointing error?

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Originally Posted by Matt Krass
We had that problem too, have you played with any of the gain and error settings? We reset them to default and it fixed it, points pretty straight now.
Yes, I have played with them and now I have also followed Kevin Watson's instructions as well.

The results are that, when locked onto the target, the pan now pretty consistently reads -3 (degrees) and the tilt reads 0 (degrees). This is with the target about 30 feet straight ahead of and level with the camera. The camera itself still points to the left and high of the target the same as always when locked on.

So, it appears to be an optical alignment error within the camera unit itself. I'm not going to spend any more time on this. It locks on and tracks beautifully - that's good enough.

Thanks to all for this input.