Spent most of the night with the CGX and my 190mm Mak-Newt. Enjoyed the mount - had no issues with the home switches (and I used it a lot) balancing, gotos where very accurate with starsense.
My horror show with PHD guiding continues though
even though I was well polar aligned (used the Celestron ASPA, and then sharpcap) and was shooting 80 second unguided images of M42, guiding was a waste of time.
In truth I have NEVER been able to get PHD to work on any of my other mounts (HEQ5,CGEM) either with my Orion short tube 80, or various finder guiders, so this result was not unexpected.
Next step will be to replace the finder guider, cables, and perhaps switch to an OAG.
Was very disappointed and frustrated with guiding, but was happy with the mount.