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Hi Pete
I never put a telescope on mine till I had learnt to drive the handbox (synscan) in the dark.
When no one is looking bring the mount and tripod inside near your computer. Forget the counterbalances and all the other stuff that mounts the scope. The tripod should have a letter "N" on top of one of the legs. Orient this to where South is and sit the mount onto its seat. Set its altitude to your latitude (near enough will do for the testing).
Plug in the controller set the mount to the "home position" counterbalance shaft down parallel to the leading (South) leg and the scope mount in the position that your scope would point due south.
Turn on the power. see initializing and then the name and software version and try this routine
Press Enter- twice
Enter your longitude and latitude with the numbers on the key pad
Press Enter-
Set your time zone with the number keypad
Press Enter-
Enter the Date with the number keypad
Press Enter-
Enter the Date with the number key pad
Press Enter
Enter the time (local 24hr) with the number key pad
Press Enter
See "daylight saving "No"
Press Enter
Begin alignment selct 1 yes or 2 No
Enter 2 (No)
Press (key 8) Object
Name Star will appear
Press enter
with the down key (bottom) cycle through to Achenar
Press Enter three times
The mount will slew to where the star is (check a planetarium program)
Get this far a couple of times and you should be able to learn the rest. By the way the manual does not show the menu for ver 3.27.
Use this
Barry
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