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Originally Posted by Murray Grobler
Thanks for that, Paul
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after the initial setup it appears to lose time - dramatically. I mean its clock would progress about 2 minutes over a 20 minute interval in real time. Is this a problem?
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Interesting, though that won't stop you seeing something through the scope(try during the day as suggested) it sounds kinda wierd!
Once you've confirmed you can see something through the scope, tell it to go to a star and see how well it tracks it. If the star drifts send it in for repair.
I repaired an expensive CD player years ago that had a similar problem, the clock(elapsed track time etc) ran super slow, it completely ignored the remote and there was a massive delay after pressing buttons... press the Open button and the tray would open 5mins later.
I immediately thought that there might be a dry solder joint on the systems crystal so opened her up, resoldered both leads on the crystal and she sprang to life.
This sort of thing can happen to NEW equipment. Bad solder joint, seems fine when factory tested(QC), then after shipping and being bumped around in transport... problems.
Again tho, only suspect this after you can see something and have tried tracking.