[Chunky Wheeler (Chris)]

The other night I had an annoying experience with my EQ8.

I was nicely set up and centring on a galaxy when the cable for the hand controller fell out. Probably because I was pulling on it too hard--it's way too short for my set up. Anyhow, I plugged the cable back in the control box without first turning off the mount (silly me).

The first message which came up was " do you want to auto-home?" and like a fool I pressed yes. It then auto-homed 180 degrees from where the home position is and did this for the rest of the night, in between behaving very strangely, despite the fact that I manually returned it to the old and correct home position, and repeated the 2 star alignment a few times.

I am not sure but I think the only way to get out of this dilemma is to Restore Factory Settings.

Has anyone got any advice?

Secondly, does anyone know where I can buy a longer cable or better still a wireless hand controller?

Thanks a million, Chunky