[Nico13 (Ken)]

Well here's something, I did as you suggested and altered the sign on the RA,AZ ratio from + to - restarted the drive and no change so I went back and reset it to + again and then I slew to an hour index mark and to my surprise it is now driving the correct way.
No other changes made, you tell me, one of those mysteries.

Anyway to answer one of your questions it is running Meade motors and it came with two brand new spares.

The mount is currently srewed to a piece of wood siiting on my coffee table in front of me and running some tests. When I said it found the moon in goto mode this was a rough obsevation as I could see the moon outside my lounge window and as my house is 3deg off Nth Sth I have a good reference for some rough goto tests using the computer star charts as the other refence.
I think this will give me some idea of drive ratio calibration while I'm building my pier mount as I don't have a tripod for it.

Thanks again Andrew and I'll check out the link you have there as well.

Ken.

PS
Not sure what software version other than the label on the back appears to be vers 22. A bit hard to read though as it's rubbed very faint.