Calibration issue

[Jay]

I'm having an issue calibrating that seems to be related to mount movement. PHD2 can make the mount slew, but when it comes to pulse guiding I'm seeing very little if any movement. During calibration, West movement would take up to 35 steps, then during the East steps the star would continue to get farther away instead of returning to the crosshair. Something similar with North/South steps occurs. The calibration graph shows RA and DEC are basically on top of each other. When I tried to guide with this without slewing away from the calibration area I would get insufficient guiding errors. GSS, NINA and PHD2 could see pulses being sent, but there did not seem to be any movement.

What I've attempted to resolve:
Checked all connections
Checked firmware settings
Recalculated calibration steps
Different guide speed settings (0.5, 0.9, 1)

Changing RA and DEC guiding rate % in GSS (50%, 90%, 100%)

I am FULLY willing to accept that I may have done something wrong in any one of those steps.

Here's my log file:

https://openphdguiding.org/logs/dl/PHD2_logs_Mkpp.zip

[Bruce Waddington]

What kind of a mount is this?  What are the other details of your setup in terms of instrument load?  Is the mount polar aligned?  You probably need to go back to the absolute basics and run the Star Cross test in PHD2 (Tools menu).  Unless you can get a reasonably consistent 'cross' pattern doing that test, you aren't likely to have any luck trying to calibrate.  When you do return to calibrating,  set the mount guide speed to 0.9x sidereal but beyond that don't futz around with any of the PHD2 parameters - let the Calibration Assistant do its job by following all its instructions.  At this point, it looks like you have a substantial mechanical problem.

Bruce