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Originally Posted by Tandum
The only board I've ever heard of that blew was due to bad wiring in a home brew adapter.
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I prefer to think of that episode as knowing I needed glasses but too proud to have yet bought them. Not checking the wiring before connecting it was plain dumb and lazy though
The HEQ5pro has run happily under EQMOD ever since however, and outperforms my EQ6 for tracking within its 10kg limits. I don't particularly enjoy using the handcontrollers but would be nice to have it available as a backup occasionally. I'm not personally aware of anyone else who has had a blown board as a result of EQMOD and I've met a lot of people with these mounts in recent years. There are a lot of relatively inexpensive commercial solutions available now (HITEC and Shoestring) so less need/temptation to wire up your own EQMOD cable now anyway. Once you start using EQMOD (and routinely have a laptop for astrophotography usually anyway) you'll wonder how you got by without it. Fantastic bit of coding.
I posted elsewhere too, but this thread is a good read for those tempted to make your own:
USB EQDir for under £4