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Originally Posted by brian nordstrom
 Good luck , I had and used a sweet iOptron IEQ45 for years and it did not miss a beat in 100's of observing nights , in Darwin no less , its very damp up there and hard on electronics I also found the software to be easier to use than all the others .
It sounds like yours has a loose connection somewhere ?? .
Good luck and yes , please keep us posted . 
Brian. |
Hi Brian,
No there was no loose connection with Alan's mount. It was in fact a dicky hand controller connection cable (it was dead) and a faulty hand controller circuit board. After loading the correct firmware onto my spare controller all worked as it should. Possibly it was the cable that took out the circuit board.
After testing / running the mount for 3 seperate nights and soak testing the motors on the bench the mount behaved as it should. The main control board sent out no fault messages so I have no reason at this stage to think anything else is wrong with this unit. I also tried a new main control board just in case but no difference in performance was noted.
Cheers
Graham