[Paul Haese]

Anyone who owns a PME would have heard that alarm at one stage or another. If the balance is not perfect or there is something dragging the mount stops and sounds a warning to let you know there is a problem.

This should also be borne in mind that the plungers in the plunger assembly need to be tensioned correctly. Software bisque have a PDF on this and anyone with a large scope on their PME needs to read te document.

Last night no matter what I did the mount kept stopping and sounding the alarm at intermittent times. Aside from the plunger adjustment, what other issues could be causing this? I need to check this out very thoroughly as I have the 12RC sitting on the mount now and I want to make sure I have covered all my bases. I checked all my cables externally and none were pulling.

I have checked inside the mount too to make sure no cables are pulling or getting caught. Nothing seemed at fault in there. Anyone have an image of the inside of the mount and where the cable ties are located which hold the through the mount cables of the mount itself?

Setting the plunger screw at 1/2 turn back from tight seems to have sorted the problem for now, but I am sure it will go off again in the future.

I have only had this scope on the mount once before and it worked ok, but I was not doing a pointing run or doing so many slews. Any tips from the PME owners? Have I missed something?