wizzlebippi For how the mount tracks, Both axies will run away before toggling flip, then only DEC will run away after toggling flip. It also sometimes toggles automatically with a meridian flip, and I can't find a setting to control that.
Most mounts only require an RA motor reversal. But there are some mounts (very few) that have programmed their motors to also reverse the declination motor after the pier side changes.
Back during ASIAIR v1.6.2, there was a switch that you can also force a declination reversal when you set the Flip switch to reverse the RA; otherwise the program only reverses the RA motor.
I don't know if ZWO had "automated" it in v1.7 -- they always like to do things like that to make things appear "simpler" to novices, and because of negligence, poor programming practices or complete ignorance of an existing problem, ends up causing terrible bugs instead. Send an email directly to asiair@zwoptical.com to ask if the declination reversal for some mounts is now automated, and if your mount is included in that list.
Unless that declination switch is still available, your mount may actually not need the declination reversal but somehow got "automated" to also reverse the declination motors in ASIAIR v1.7.
It is actually easy to check if your mount needs a reversal after a meridian flip. Start with the mount in pointing at the sky east of the Meridian, and perhaps 30 degrees from the meridian. You can do this in the daytime.
Command the mount to change RA by a few degrees. Ignore what key is used to send the command (whether East or West arrow), instead look at whether the RA axis has rotated clockwise or anti-clockwise. It helps to mark the mount with a felt tip pen to see the movement. At the same time, note down which direction (towards east or west) the OTA has moved.
Now command the mount to go to the west of the Meridian through a Meridian flip, and repeat the experiment. Note down the clockwise/counter-clockwise vs towards east or west movement again.
If you compare the two, you would see that a clockwise RA axis movement will cause the mount to move east on one side of the meridian, and the same clockwise movement will cause the mount to move west on the other side of the pier.
This is the RA axis motor reversal.
Now, repeat the above for the declination axis. Again, ignore the arrow buttons, and just look at whether the declination axis has rotated clockwise or counter clockwise to move north or south. If there is a reversal, you mount reverses both motors after a pier flip. If there is no reversal, your mount is like the majority of mounts, and don't require a declination "flip" after a Meridian Flip. This could be useful information when you contact ZWO.
Chen