Marpic

Hi Frank, I recently inherited a TQ5 telescope mount with attached motors for dual axis control and tracking. Alas it arrived without the motor handset. The Celestron G4 motor handset I tried on it fits perfectly, but only gets the motors to pulse back and forth in tiny movements/shudders! Did you ever find any useful details or manual for the mount? Did you add motor drives and if so which type and what hand set? I have found nothing on my web searches relating to this mount other than your SGL posting and mine. Regards

Thank you

I've recently obtained a second hand TQ5 equatorial mount and tripod, motorised in both RA & Dec, but unfortunately without the hand controller. Both motors have individual RJ12 (?) type power connections. I tried connecting a Celestron dual axis G4 controller (Celestron CG4 mount looks almost identical!), which is working fine on the Celestron mount, and I can hear the digital pulses clicking the TQ5 motors, but no movemement! Upon opening the units for closer inspection, the TQ5 motors are simply oscillating tiny movements back and forth and not rotating. Can anyone suggest a hand control unit that may operate a dual axis motorised TQ5 correctly? Many thanks in advance.