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Old 09-07-2007, 07:17 PM
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Question EQ6 & GPS won't slew?

Hello all. Has anybody encountered the following problem?

I have the EQ6 with the SynScan 3 controller upgraded to 3.12 and the SkyWatcher GPS plugin. When I first set up, the GPS registers nicely, I get ready to do my star alignment, select a start and the scope slews to where it thinks the star is. Time to adjust, right?

Strangely however, sometimes the scope won't slew when I push the arrow buttons! I have to "reboot" the mount one or more times before it "takes", and then everything is back to normal.

This has only started happening since I added the GPS unit, which makes me suspicious.

Has anybody had this problem or heard of it, and if so is there a fix? There isn't any later upgrade to the software available to my knowledge.
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