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Very few mounts at the lower end of the scale will retain alignment of the electronics after a manual slew. I bought an Orion Atlas Pro (Skywatcher AZEQ6 with a coat of black paint) specifically because it has encoders both on the motors and on both axis so that you can loose the clutches and point manually without the goto alignment being lost.
If you are happy to find targets manually it is not much of an issue on an EQ mount to not have the on axis encoders but an Alt-Az no longer knows where it is pointed if you release the clutches and tracking is lost as well as goto.
The Skywatcher AZEQ5 presumably has dual encoders like the AZEQ6? I am sure there are others but the AZEQ variants are the ones I am familiar with.
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