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NEQ6 runaway under EQMod
I've been successfully running EQMod on the NEQ6 for many years with no issues...
Last weekend I experienced a RA slew runaway!! I was in the remote office doing a plate solve and didn't realise.... The mount ended up counterweights up and the telescope rammed into the mount!!! Motors clicking like the devil...
After checking everything I managed to get everything back to "normal".
The following night I subsequently had a good session (>80min) guiding etc as usual.
Everything seemed OK.
BUT last night observing almost directly overhead (V3980) the mount went into RA slew mode - I was there and could press the emergency stop.
This happened four times during a 30 min period.
No action on my part - the mount just went into RA slew!!!!
I'll check and inspect everything later, but I'm concerned that there may be some damage to the motors/ motherboard which is causing this random slew.
Has anyone else had similar issues?????
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