Micheal at Bintel showed me a trick to align the scope that may help.
- First of all declutch the OTA (loosen the gear knobs) so that the scope can move in any direction.
- Select 2 star align and press enter to go to the first star.The motors should start whirring but as the gears are disabled the OTA shouldn't move anywhere.
- Wait until the motors stop and the handset beeps to inform you so confirm the first alignment star.
- Then physically move the OTA until the first star is aligned in the finder scope.
- Once this is done lock the gears by tightening the knobs and fine grain align using the keypad.
- Next select the second star and align that withtthe gears enabled.
I usually use very bright and easily identifiable stars to do this with and it works well..
However if this doens't work you may have a broken sensor which will need replacement. Once again the guys at Bintel will be able to help.
I bought a LX90 8" over 12 months ago and initially everything worked well but after a while the alignment was way off and in the end the scope was bunny hopping as one of the sensors was blown. However once the sensor was replaced everything returned to normal.
