Well, a bit of a saga seems to be coming to an end!
I received my ASA 16" f3.6 newt back in April and stuck it on the DDM85 I had in my dome. I'd bought the mount here on ice in space and there had always been some questions about it, but once the 16" was mounted there was no doubt it had serious issues. So back to Austria for the mount, where a few bearings, connectors and suchlike were replaced and it has returned and is working perfectly. Except for a few issues around Win10's propensity to update drivers that pretty much requires a weekly ritual of going through and deleting and rolling back things even though you told Win 10 to never do this! Not the sort of thing you expect to do for a $20,000 mount, but to be fair, it's the astonishingly crap OEM software that causes the issue!
Anyway, once it was all back in the dome and cheerfully whizzing about under full control without hitting things, dropping USB ports, and other irritating symptoms the weather rolled in for five bloody weeks.
But last night everything worked. And I got a few hours on the Trifid. Minimal processing because I've forgotten how to do it.
Anyway, if anyone would like more detail on what these ASA thingys are like to live with, let me know and I shall post an honest review.
cheers
Andrew.
Astrobin version here!
http://www.astrobin.com/full/305846/0/?nc=user