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Dennis
I fixed it with a hand controller reset - yah and huge thanks all to the Yahoo SS2K group as well. The Handcontroller must have some clever protection and reset electronics inside it. Its fragile in some ways - but seems to have alot of protect circuitry and fall back recovery - which has proved excellent its there!
But now I ponder what caused it and how to avoid it in the future?
I tried plugging the mount directly into a Celestron 17amp hour PSU that provides a regulated 12 volts DC and up to 10 amps current - may have helped but it didn't fix things.
So next I just wrote down all the settings, powered off and recycles the hand controller (hold down all four direction buttons and power on). Interestingly this sets the gears and encoders all wrong - but I simply keyed in the previously stored values.
Then I set it to PC LX200 9600 baud and did a connect - worked first go on the Sky6 -> Vixen SkySensor2000-PC. I dis-connected the link switched to TeleAPI -> Maxpoint -> Skysensor2000-PC and re-conencted - worked beautifully again!
So all is well - until the next time.
What advice would folk give me - for instance should I switch to a regulated 5 or 10 amp power supply?
My chair in the astro lab sits on a plastic computer map with pimples down (to let me run over cables and to trap moisture under the plastic surface - works a treat). Should I place carpet over this? I wasn't even in the lab when things went wrong - I was remotely operating. So I wonder if a voltage spike happened somewhere - a long LAN cable?
All ideas very welcome - I'm smiling again!
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