Motorizing Siskiyou and controlling from Zen Black

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Motorizing Siskiyou and controlling from Zen Black

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Dear Listers,

We have a Zen LSM 7MP equipped with a Siskiyou stage. We now want to
motorize the stage and run it from Zen Black. It looks like Siskiyou does
not have a compatible controller. An alternative was to go through an ASI
controller, but it provides with an interface to Zen Blue, not Zen Black. I
wonder if any of you had this problem and would be thankful for any
comments suggestions.

Thank you in advance,
Vladimir
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Re: Motorizing Siskiyou and controlling from Zen Black

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Hi Vladimir,

Unfortunately ZEN Black does not control this stage natively.  Zeiss only supports a select few stages from Marzhauser (via MCU controller) and Prior for the LSM.  ZEN Blue does have more stage options - but that software will not control the LSM 7 MP - which, since has been discontinued, likely will not be supported in any future software updates.

-Jason


> On Dec 16, 2015, at 3:30 PM, Vladimir Ghukasyan <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> Dear Listers,
>
> We have a Zen LSM 7MP equipped with a Siskiyou stage. We now want to
> motorize the stage and run it from Zen Black. It looks like Siskiyou does
> not have a compatible controller. An alternative was to go through an ASI
> controller, but it provides with an interface to Zen Blue, not Zen Black. I
> wonder if any of you had this problem and would be thankful for any
> comments suggestions.
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Vladimir