HEQ5 Updates

[xystridura]

I recently bought a "near new" HEQ5 Pro which turned out to be V 3.27.
I need to update it and I see that updates to V 3.37 are available; I especially want/need V 3.28 (which apparently does a 3-star align equivalent to Celestron's "Any Star" align ) - do I need to find all the intermediate updates and instal them?
TIA
David

[Atmos]

If you download 3.37 that is the only one you need, you don't need to do all of the ones that came out the interim.

[xystridura]

Thanks for that Colin.
Cheers
David

[xystridura]

There are a number of threads on eg YouTube on updating the HEQ5 Firmware, about 1/2 of which state that the 0 & 8 buttons have to be pressed to do it, yet (as far as I can see ) the Skywatcher HEQ5 update website doesn't mention this.
What is the story?
Cheers
David

[SkyWatcherMike]

Hi David,

You can find the instruction here:
http://www.skywatcher.com/downloads/Firmwares/Updating%20the%20SynScan%20Firmware .pdf

[xystridura]

Thanks Mike
Could you tell me how (if?) I can back up my present firmware before I try to update it ?
Thanks
David

[SkyWatcherMike]

I'm not aware of any way to 'back up'.
You may be able to find the version you want on the skywatcher.com downloads page.
Flashes rarely fail, and if something does go wrong (power outage or some such), you can always flash again.

Regards,

[xystridura]

Thanks again for your reply Mike.
I wish I was as confident as you are !
However, I guess I'll give it a go (in a week or so when/if we run out of thunderstorms )
Cheers
David

[barx1963]

I did mine a while back and was very easy and pain free.

Malcolm

[xystridura]

Malcolm,
Thanks for that encouragement; I'll try to get up the necessary courage tomorrow.
There's stil ltime to test it out before New Moon, if only the sky would clear.
Cheers
David

[xystridura]

All done - no probs at all (as far as I can see at this stage ).
All I need now is some decent weather to try it out.
Thanks for all your help.
David