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Old 23-09-2012, 09:44 AM
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I am about to go and have a try at something, I am gong to desolder the RS232 chip from the board in case it has fried and an output has gone high or low and is stopping everything else from working. if it gets it going then the worst it is likely to mean that I have no PC interface via the mount (Which I have never used anyway)

If that does not work I will have to find a freight forwarding company to buy some bits from Celestron US, after what I hae seen about local costs for parts and knowing that the motor control board is $107 and the interface board $26 USD I would be pretty offended by the costs I have seen mentioned.

The other option would be to just remount it on the likes of an EQ5 and put up with the EP ending up in odd spots. For visual the alt az mount is hard to beat.
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