Hi guys.
just a word of warning, if you decide to do maintenance on your mount like I did, for example greasing you dec motor worm gear, I advise you don’t turn the motor with your fingers, I did and believe I turned in to a generator and fed a voltage back into the control pcb. Now the dec board is dead. I’ve tested th motor on on th R.A. Board and it works fine. The R.A. motor doesn’t work on the dec board either. I’ve teste all the leads going in and out of the board for continuity all good there. I’ve tested that there is power going in to the board, there is but ther is no power coming out to feed the motor, unlike the R.A. which a constant voltage going out to its motor and the R.A. works fine I’ve reset the handset to factory settings too thinking I may have just of upset the encoder but no luck there.
so I’m certain it’s the DEC control board that knackered. Great stuff. Luckily they are only £42 from Ian king great stuff, NOT they have to order it from the manufacturer and that’s going to take 4 months.
Im going to try other places but its not looking good. Rother valley optics dont keep them in.
Anybody got any ideas who may have one?
its going to be a long 4 months otherwise.