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Old 03-05-2009, 11:05 PM
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HEQ5 Pro Electronics problems...happy ending!

Hi all...
Buzzing from fixing my HEQ5 Pro!

When I bought the mount, it had a click in RA which prompted me to wade in with all guns blazing - opened mount to try and identify problem instead of taking as step back and thinking logically(simply a worm gear tweak being needed!!!).

In the process I think I must have pulled some of the wires in the master circuit board resulting in intermittent
“No link to M.C. Stand alone mode” messages on the handset at startup
When imaging M4 last night the mount suddenly gave up completely - went to bed thinking my imaging 'career' was over for the foreseeable!!!

Posting this in a hope to help any others in a similar situation - in the morning I opened the curved front panel of the mount to get access to the master circuit board (about 11-12 screws in all on either side of the mount to remove it).

Straight away saw the problem - all the wires that can be potentially/ accidentally "pulled" when trying to tweak RA worm adjustment lead to connectors which 'plug in' to the main board and I had just pulled out the "plug" so to speak. Pushed this connection fully in and voila - back to as normal operation and major, MAJOR sighs of relief from moi!!!!
One happy dugnsuz
Cheers
Doug
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