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Originally Posted by Ross G
Hi Chris,
I know your frustrations.
I have a Vixen SXW Sphinx that has similar problems. It seems to all be in a HUGE amount of backlash in the DEC axis. I wouldn't know how to pull a mount apart so I took mine into Tasco/Skywatcher here in Sydney. After a number of visits the problem was still there....they "did all that they could do"...
I found that I can autoguide for 10 to 15 minutes by raising the DEC BACKLASH setting in the Star Book to 90-95%.
Does your controller have a similar setting.
Also, contact Atalas (Louie) on this forum. He has a Vixen GPDX mount which he has just adjusted to reduce the DEC backlash.
Good luck.
Ross.
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Thanks Ross for that valuable information.
Yes-the dec backlash is where the issue does appear to be.PHD takes along time to clear dec backlash.DT came up to help me,and while we could nver really pin pint anything-he was concerend with the amount of time it took to clear back lash in dec-takes 4 or 5 minutes doodling about.
I have set the back lash settings to 0 on both Ra and DEC,the Vixen Sky sensor 2000PC can adjust similar to yours.I will wait and see what clear seeing does regularly.I will have agp at cranking the BL seetings on DEC see what happens.I will try and make contact with Louie
Thanks Chris
