I think my best effort would be the Fri evening I spent soldering up my USB/TTL/RJ45 cable to get EQMOD working with my HEQ5Pro mount. Took me a couple of gos to get the wiring right, but it was working great guns in the end.
Next night is Sat night at Astroron's dark sky property 2 hrs drive away. After putting up the tent, etc and setting up the scope, get ready to polar align and find I've blown electronics in the mount the night before - the hand controller didn't work! I think I was almost crying.
Spent 2hrs trying to get EQMOD working without the instructions or any sort of controller (not even a mouse). The only thing I ended up pointing at all night was Saturn for a single 1min AVI file - not usually considered essential viewing at a dark sky site.
Mind you, on the bright side, at least EQMOD works ok whatever it was I did to the mount....sigh
Lesson learned - don't stuff around with gear just before a dark sky trip!......
