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I broke the connector on the RA encoder cable on my AZ-EQ6 PRO MC015 motherboard.
To purchase a new cable, from the manufacturer, needs a special order and will take 4 months to deliver.
Anyone knows a quicker way or used purchase?
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The trouble and strife fixed the problem!
Last Friday I finished imaging at 1.0 a.m in the morning. It was dark in our back garden.
I had to unscrew the Red and Black Mapli power terminals, to remove the power cable. I then
screwed the terminals back on in the dark. You can probably guess - I screw on the RED and black the wrong way
around. So next day back imaging again I used push-in power leads onto the Maplin terminals, not realising
that the RED and black terminal knobs were screwed in wrongly. So I was powering up the board with negative polarity.
Luckily the motherboard had built-in protection from negative power polarity - few.
I am ashamed to say the wife took one look at what I was doing and pointed out I got the terminals reversed - I felt a right wally,
And since then she has not stopped laughing.
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The power pack is 20 years old, the cable is not a cigar lighter type. This all started when I was filming during the aurora. It could be that the power supply began to fail at the same time as the aurora. But why is the Synsan now erratic when I plug it into a standalone power adapter and not connected to the power pack? I am truly baffled - am I missing something?
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I am using my mains trusty Maplin Regulated 13V DC Power Supply (XM21X) it has been ok for years. When I switch on the mount the LED does not light up. If I then plug in Synscan it also does not power up. I checked the voltage coming out of the Maplin, it reads 13.1 Volts. But when I checked the voltage at the mount switch, it read 9.0v with the switch in the OFF position, and 0V with the switch in the ON position.
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Can anyone tell me if the AZ-EQ6 mount will switch on without the syscan hand controller being connected?
My AZEQ6 will not switch on with or without the synscan.
When I disconnect the synscan from the mount and connect it to a standalone power supply the synscan does power up but is erratic and keeps resetting itself.
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On my Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 motherboard I have managed to blow two Voltage regulator diodes and a PWM Switching Regulator Microchip. I am unable to replace these myself.
Can anyone suggest anyone who could solder these on for me?
AZ-EQ6 Broken internal cable
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Thanks for the offer but I just realised I never have the auxiliary encoders enabled. So no need for the cable. Cheers.