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Synscan issue
Hi All
It's been some years since my last confession/visit.
I sort of lost interest when my now 6 yr old son arrived.
In that time I upgraded my mount to an EQ35M PRo and had trouble aligning so put it away for a few years out of frustration.
Well I thought I'd give it another go.
Now I think I found why I had troubles.
Everything seems to work ok except slewing during alignment. It stops before reaching the target. I also lose the power light on the controller but the hand controller still has power. I hope that makes sense?
Anyway I thought I'd open the black box and look for anything obvious. I am electronics repair trained. All looked ok except for L3 on the board.
It looks to be soldered on the outside of the coil only to the ground plane through hole to the back.
While the inside end of the coil looks to be solder free and can be clearly seen to wiggle on the other side. It looks very free of solder.
Without knowing how this coil behaves in the circuit I have not as yet tried to solder it to the board.
If anyone has had isses with this please let me know.
I'd love to get back into Astrophotography.
Thanks
Peter
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