NEQ6 RA slew failure ???

[Nico13]

Hi all,

A question for all you EQ6 mount owners out there.

My new EQ6 has started to fail in the middle of a slew in RA drive in either direction.
First noticed a week or so back at the SVAA club night when about half way through the evening it began to just stop in a slew operation.
Had to power down and manually park the mount re power and do another align before I could carry on.
Became a bit of a bother by the end of the night.

Had a play with it over the next couple of days and thought I'd found the problem in the hand piece cable connection not being good and a bit of a wriggle had fixed it.:question:

Well just setting up TheSky6 to drive the mount with ASCOM and EQMOD, no hand piece in the mix and its started to do it again, it will just give a click sound while slewing, like that when you first turn the mount power on and then nothing until you do a full reset.:mad2:

Anyone experienced this? Will be calling Bintel tomorrow sounds like a trip to Melbourne and may be without a mount for a while.:(

Ken.

[asimov]

Yeah, if it's still under warranty, you've made the right call. 'Return to sender'

[Nico13]

Well I think I've solved the intermittent fault, its now become a total failure. :P

Yep that's right it won't do a thing now, the last check I was doing was on battery power just to make sure it wasn't my power supply that was causing the issue.
It stopped half way through a slew as before but this time I could hear the motor still whirring away :screwy: for a couple of seconds followed by a grinding sound :eyepop: and then nothing. :help:

So it's definitely a trip the Bintel shop in the morning by the looks of it.
There's always a positive side to this though, you never know what you might come home with.:lol:

Ken.

Just to add to this when I was packing the mount up I detected a strong burnt electromics smell so the smoke has got out in there somewhere.
Not good but will get it fixed soon I guess. Haven't had it long but really love this as when it is working it does it so well.

[Nico13]

All fixed, pick it up this Sat so I'll be in business again soon.
Turns out it popped a component or two on the circuit board so new bits fitted by the Bintel boys :thumbsup: and away we go again.

Ken.