G'day All,
Not having much luck lately!
Looks like I have bought a dud!
I recently bought a light weight mount (EQ3 - Dual Motors) so that I could get back into astronomy/imaging (well EAA) with a 50ED finderscope (wide field), with my youngest son. Just wanted something that I could get in and out of the house at short notice, and not be a problem setting up and exhausting my limited time with him.
Unfortunately I have bought a system that does not work. Not sure if its the controller chip or the motors. I can hear the motor click or engage when switching between North and South, but there is no motor movement at any speed or with any button press. The controller lights up green on the LED as it should.
I have used a 6V 1A Positive Tip PSU, a 6V battery, as well as just gone out and bought another 6V Positive Tip PSU with greater amps at 2.2A from JayCar (good money, after bad!). None of these power supplies seem to make the controller or motors work.
I think it's probably the controller chip in the handset/controller! Anybody got any ideas, thoughts or experience on this?
So, long story short! I am looking for anyone who has a spare controller or dual motor set available. Hopefully not too expensive, as I think I have almost spent beyond (including fuel, travel and new PSU) what the complete package is worth second hand!
Or has anybody got any other ideas on how I can either fix (i.e. is replacing the controller chip worth it or possible), or perhaps drive the mount motors (i.e. Arduino control setup)?
The mount also doesn't have the slow motion controllers (manual control cables), so I can't even control it by hand. At this stage I would also settle for a set of them!
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
I have attached an image of what the system looks like.
Cheers
Gav
(Note: Let me be clear here, seller was good and offered money back. However, I just want to get this thing working. It's just one of those things!)