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Thanks Alex and Others
This afternoon I have again been doing extensive testing with the mount.
I made sure that my battery was fully charged and I also tried the mount
with my benchtop regulated power supply capable of supplying 4 amps.
Still no go - ie the mount does not even try to slew but straight away delivers the message "slewing complete" when an attempt is made to go to
an alignment star or other objects.
Voltage checks and the steady red led on the paddle indicates there are no power problems.
However, after many attempts the mount did start to slew but it failed again after about three starts.
Something that might be significant is that the mount seems to work when
straight after Initializing and the following beep the message comes up
"START FROM PARKED POSITION?"
The times it does not work it appears to come up with the message
"NO LINK TO M.C. STAND-ALONE MODE". I do not know what this message means and there is no reference to it in the instruction manual. Could this be my problem and how can I force the mount to always start from the parked position?
Cheers Peter
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