| Arthur Dent |
| (Galactic Hitch-Hiker) |
| 03/12/09 03:02 PM |
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Re: ETX Problem - help required please
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Glad to see it is working again-- but you should not be getting motor faults "all the time" ???????
Once in a while if the scope is very unbalanced --- but not again and again--- keep an eye on it-- may be something else???
Cheers Joe,
Like you I was not impressed when I unpacked the scope and after doing a mock "Easy" alignment and slewing to an object the scope stopped dead in its tracks and I got the "motor drive failure (or was it drive motor failure") message. Tried again - same thing.
Phoned repair shop & told to do a "reset". Still got the same failure message. Not a happy bunny.
Still, I persevered and played around doing mock alignments again and I didn't get the fault message. If I get one more, I'll be writing a letter to the shop (and expecting them to ship it back to the shop, fix it and return it for free - as the shop is nearly 200 miles away).
Art