Mysteron

I have been having problems with my Orion XT10g probably for a couple of years, spending hours on the phone to Orion, dozens of emails and all to no prevail....UNTIL.....I came across Malc-c, what a trooper, sent him both Synta motor boards and within 2 days they were back sitting on my desk with 2 new Pico chips fitted. I installed them, powered up the system and hey presto IT WORKS for the fist time in a couple of years. I almost put the scope up for sale (My Wife was pushing me as I wasn't using it) but now I can justify keeping it lol. Thank you so much Malc-c, a well priced first class service that was very very much appreciated. Your a star!!

Nope, I think the confusion is all mine malcom lol. I'm remembering back 2 years and lots of conversatioins with Orion!! It was the hand comtroller that had it's firmware rolled back, the motor boards could'nt communicate. The boards are the MC004 rev f with the PIC16F886 chips.

Thanks for the come back Brown Dwarf and the reply Main Sequence. The only things I havn't replaced are the actual motors and the motor board in the base., I even bought a new hand controller but still received the same unable to communicate error! So the probability of corrupted firmware on the motor board is high as this was discussed with Orion but as the original firmware was quite old and a copy was unavailable plus if it's the corrupted firmware thats stopping the communication It wouldn't have loaded it anyway. How do you get around corrupted firmware??

Hi Brown Dwarf, thanks for the reply. Yes down graded the controller and system board firmware to it's original version but to no avail.

Hi all, I have owned this XT10g for around 3 years, the first year was great, no problems at all, the optics are sound and the GoTo worked like a dream and then I upgraded the firmware and that was it. Communication problems between the handset and the motors. So spoke at length with Orion, replaced the main board, no change, replaced the PSU, no change, tried to upgrade the motor firmware but not able to comunicate with the controller and so after 2 years I have now given up and decided to replace the Synta electronics with what looks to be a very good Arduino system. What I'm hoping to find is someone who has information on the existing motors as I would like to use them with the Arduino setup. I have looked online but can't find anything about them so if there is any knowledgable person out there who could shed some light on this I would be very very grateful.