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Originally Posted by mg
When I set the mount up in EQ mode, I make sure it's in the home position, then when I turn it on it assumes it is pointing at the south pole until you tell it otherwise. As far as I can tell, the RA motor starts running, bacause it tracks without me needing to tell it to, and before I do an alignment.
Not so with AZ mode though, because it needs some bearings first to let it know which way to track.
In AZ mode, you can just plonk it down roughly level, then do a 2-star alignment and tracking will commence. I find this adequate for visual. It takes literally 2 minutes.
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As a side note. Plugged the mount in, in EQ mode
without the hand controller/laptop and the RA motor doesn't start straight up. Guess it needs to be told which hemisphere it is in.