[cafuego (Peter)]

I managed to score a cheap Meade LX200 off ebay, sold as as-new and never used. It definitely looks unused; there's not a scratch on it.

However, now that I've got it set up at home, I wonder if one of the servos is busted, or if I'm doing something wrong during setup.

When starting, when I choose auto-align, the autostar controller displays "Finding home" - which I understand to mean it's looking for the furthest it can turn its RA axis - but nothing happens. Something should happen, right?

When playing with the controller a bit more, the scope happily slews through the DEC axis, so the servos on that are fine.

Does anyone have any suggestions for what to do next? Even if I need to drop a few hundred $ on having the RA servo replaced or getting one to replace myself it's still a bargain - so that's fine.