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Well I won't be viewing for some time the wind and rain have penetrated the obey roof so the wife and me dismantelled All my gear today wii have to wait until the weather improves to fix it and the garden is waterlogged

Thanks Robert Did think of that but have now removed the motor and converted to hand control on the dec. Every thing else still works fine so I will work with that untill I decide on a new mount

Yes newbie have done a search for 432 and found one for 240 dollars give that a miss . Put that towards another mount.

Thanks Steve I have tried all those things except for a different handset . Have now dissconected the Dec motor And the mount slews and tracks in ra .Newbie I have looked at the board with an eye glass and cannot see any sign Of damage the only identification marks is a number written in felt pen on the plastic sheet on the back of the board Thanks

My spare mount is a Celestron CG5 Pro GT. I tried it yesterday and it has developed a strange fault and I was wondering if any one else has experienced it and has a remedy. Set it to slew to a target and of it goes but then when it reaches target and stops before I get chance to except or adjust alignment the dec motor starts again move a bit then stops then a couple of seconds later starts again. The only way to stop it is to switch of the power. Even if I unplug the hand control it will continue to stop and start. Cleaned all the plug connections tried a new dec cable even updated the hand control from Celestron. All to no avail. I strongly suspect the control board is at fault but my understanding is these are no longer available. As the mount is in such good condition it would be a shame not to fix it. So any help would be appreciated.

Hello and welcome, i remember those lovely southern skies when visiting Bundaburg

Makes me realise how lucky I am my neighbour runs a steel fabrication business he made me a mount For the steel cost of £25 and a couple of spare top plates drilled with bolt holes it was so heavy he had to Lift in in place for me.