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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???

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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

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Meade ETX105 (a nice "Grab & Go" scope) & Celestron NexStar 6SE with Bob's Knobs.

Various EP's from 6mm to 26mm, Baader Hyperion 8-24mm Zoom, a 2x Barlow, 2" diagonal and 7Ah PowerTank.
MRF and Antares 8x50 RACI finder scope - both for the 6SE's OTA, whilst the ETX gets a plain RDF.

Canon EOS 400D DSLR (un-modded) and SPC900 webcam. Finally climbing the AP Learning Curve!

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