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Chrb1985

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  1. Wow this Is really good images! Congratulations! Much better than my first images of the planets. Any plans on getting bigger aperture scope?
  2. Hmm Ive been pretty humble up to this point. If that's the only mod I'm doing to this circuit board. And never plan to touch it again. What does the color on the heat shrinkers matter? And is it s problem to use that thick wires? I followed a other post on this forum when I decided on cables. Can you tell my again what I'm risking here?
  3. I understand. But the eagle can't power it? I really hate the idea of loose ends.. but many I can use the spare 12v eagle cable for that? Cut and splice and power the dew heater with that port/output? I can adjust the Amp from 3-5 if that matters?
  4. So nice too see this thread getting so much attention 😁 I can gladly just bow to you guys. And hope too me half as wise as you guys some day but for now I can tell you that it works. I followed your advices and I cleaned the circuitboard and resoldered the cables and dibble checked everything and it works. Just too be sure I order a new eqmod cable and a baader 12v 5amp power supply. I also ordered a primalucelab original 3amp power cable since I also followed a local electritions advice. I guess I now know that he is not that educated as it was him who told me that I had "over powered" it by using the 8amp output and cable. Anyway I guess I'll continue too use the 8amp output and the 8amp cable then. And start fresh with new eqmod cable cut to length and a fresh "good" "correct" solder job on the wires to the circuitboard plug. Even though my pride is hurt 😂🤣 I thank you all for your advices and I thank God for my share luck in this project. I now understand that it was pure luck that I did not burn my circuitboard. Since it all seems to be sorted out and I did get so much good help here. Mabye you guys can shed some light on one more issue? I got a dewheater ring from Celestron installed on the c11. It's connected to the eagle but it don't seem to be working at all.. in the control application it says it putting out 3v and there is no way to change that number. At least not that I could find.. from reading forums and primalucelabs documentation + their videos, it seems to meet that I need the Ecco unit too? Even though some guys report it working fine without the Ecco unit. On the dewheater ring it's 1input and one output, I guess the output is for a sensor. Do I need that anyway to make it work? I'll attach a few pictures of the dewheater ring. Again.. thanks so much for your help. I'll attach a few pictures of the soldering I did that worked. And hopefully I get the power supply tomorrow so I can get that part ready before the EQMOD cable comes. Than I will post the final pictures unless I mess up again 🤣😂
  5. Well I'm sorry to say that you are wrong. The 2 spots Wich I soldered together is ground. The one spot you marked - is actually + I have checked this out my self and checked several forum threads and had it confirmed. Anyway I'm ordering a new board (eq6) with the USB. Eq6 screw on power plugg. The primalucelab 3A power cable and a baader 230 to 12V 5A 60W power supply. So I guess I'll get it working now. I'm embarrassed to say that I bought the wrong primalucelab power cable.. I got the 8A version.. and the neq6 pro mount needs 2A so it's not entirely sure that I did the dammsge by soldering alone. If I have been running the mount on 8A insted of 2A I guess this can be good for the board right? I just got one concern right now. And that is the new board. Some sites says it will fit perfect. But the connectors don't quit look the same.. have anyone done this upgrade before? Using eq6 circuit board in neqpro mount? I know some guy in this or a similar post I posted a few days back told me he had done it. Even though I embarrassed my self alot here, I'm learning. Learning the hard way but it is what it is. Your help is much appreciated
  6. Ofcourse this is helpfull! I double checked again and I'm 100% positive I made the right connections. And since I'm no expert. C30 and c31.. if they are burnt.. should it be connection there then? I thought if something is burnt it would be no connection. I'm boy quite sure on how to approach this fix right now..
  7. Okay thank you. But do you know where I can find some decent drawings or diagrams?
  8. Hmmm. I asked before. And I checked all the pictures I could find. And as far as I know. The plugg inside the connector is + and the exposed metal on the sides of the plug is -. That's what all google searches said. But I can't say anything else than I'm a beginner. I don't have the knowledge or the skills at all in this field. But I'm also not afraid to try new things. And 1burnt circuit board is not really the end of the world for me. So I appreciate all the help I can get here. But please don't be rude.. If someone could telle me specifically Wich of the 3 points is + and who is - it would be greatly appreciated!
  9. Okay thanks for good info. I'm not too sure I understood all of it. So can you please give me a link to what actually is + - on the board? Mabye a picture also? I'm pretty sure nothing is burnt. I have inspected it in detail. But I might be wrong. So if I could just get the wire diagram, i'll try again. 👍 But with the advice you gave me
  10. Can you point out more specific what I need to do too fix my problem? I'll attach some more pictures of my equipment and some more pictures of both side of the circuitboard 👍 Snapchat-620283080.mp4
  11. Attached picture of the soldering on the underside of circuitboard
  12. I actually think it's the eagle 12.8V power cable that's the problem. The wire is "dissolving" in the end with the screw on plug that goes in the eagle. This plug has 3 connection pins but the cable itself only have 2. Yellow and red. And when I look close it's actually 3 pins that goes all the way through🤔 many the 2wires just got twisted and therefore touches each other. Seems to me to be plausible. But can't seem to think that when the female connector on the eagle have 3 pins and the cable plugg have three pins, many 1 of the 2 cables was solder on to the 1pin that's now "alone" (?) I'll attach some pictures..
  13. Did you run into any problems? I tried to start it up now. And it won't work. When I connect it to the eagle PC the PC goes in protect and turns off. I measured my soldering points and it seems to be fine.. i splittet the yellow cable and soldered it to both the - points on the circuit board and the red wire to the +. On the underside of the circuit board I solder the two - points together. Mabye I should not have done that? I got a multimeter. I just did not want to go look for it earlier. 🤣
  14. Okay. I'm in the middle of the project right now. Here's some progress pictures. Wish I knew if yellow is + or if red is + 🤦 Did not want to destroy the plug..
  15. Hi! I want to eliminate the possibility of the cable getting in conflict with something and falling out or any other possible thing that could occure that result in cable getting pulled out. I already soldered the EQMOD USB cables 6wires directly to the 6 wires that's connected to a 6pin plug at the circuit board. I made a small hole in the polar finder cap and pulled the cable through. This works like a charm and it much less hassle than before. It don't look good, so I'm redoing that job tonight with a new fresh Zwo lan/wan cable. Since I'm already going to take it all apart I want to solder the power cable directly to the circuit board and run the cable through the same hole do they run parallel up to the primalucelab eagle 4 computer. I think the soldering part is smooth sailing but I'm not quit sure on how to resolder the power plugg connector from the circuit board. Any one here who have done this before? Or is it another smarter washer way of doing this?
  16. It is a Eqdirect cable. And yes it was USB to serial. But its all good now my friend. It worked out quit nice. See attached photo Snapchat-221244950.mp4
  17. Quick replay. My board is intact. The picture is from Google. I fixed it now. I will post a more elaborate post later. Meanwhile. Is there a website I can order those components you mention? I'd really like to try to make one. And I love learning new things:) I'll attach a few pics of my project here too. Many you get what I did
  18. If anyone wants to know. I fixed it. Soldered the cable right on the main circuit board. And it worked. I'm so relieved! First I got a error message. Access to port denied. I did some google searches and find out that som app got access and did not finish in the right way or something. So I just switched USB port an voila problem fixed. So now everything works nice. Will post some more pictures of how it looks tomorrow if people are interested? Thanks for the help in this and other posts
  19. I try to post here to. After some cable problems. I wanted to just get things working so I decided to just solder the cables from my cable directly to the cables on the other side of the rs232 plug ON the mount itself. My problem is that there are 6 wires coming from the mother board that goes to the rs232 plug. I assumed the colors where the same on that side as on the RJ45 that goes on the other side from mount to hand controller. This is not the case. So I need a picture of someone's motherboard connector/clip thingy that goes to the rs232 that is mountet on the mount itself. Hope this was well enough explained. I'll attach a picture that shows what I need. It this picture it's not clear Wich cable goes where on the rs232 connector/plug.
  20. Im sad too say that this has now becomed a expensive affair. I now have mapped everything pretty good. Bit after buying wrong sex rs232 plugs yesterday I decided to just solder the cables from my cable directly to the cables on the other side of the rs232 plug ON the mount itself. My problem now is that there are 6 wires coming from the mother board that goes to the rs232 plug. I assumed the colors where the same on that side as on the RJ45 that goes on the other side from mount to hand controller. This is not the case. So I need a picture of someone's motherboard connector/clip thingy that goes to the rs232 that is mountet on the mount itself. Hope this was well enough explained. I'll attach a picture that shows what I need. It this picture it's not clear Wich cable goes where on the rs232 connector/plug.
  21. I burnt something on y motherboard on this neq6pro... Fault wire, Wich was the cause off. It got stretched or something and it did not show, and that was that.. 2021 season down the drain. That's why I'm not doing anything on that front before om 1000% sure of thing first Right now I shortened the cable and soldered the original rs232 plug to the EQMOD cable in place of the RJ45 plug and it works like I mentioned. But when I did it I had to replace 1 of the 8 wires with a 50mm wire to get the right length on the whole set before I sealed it up. That job is not 100% in my bokk also I think on 1-2 or many 3 of the other wires I did not get the sealing "hose(?)" Good/thought enough so I suspect that many some of the cobber wire is exposed just a little bit here and there. it works, no problem, but my main concern is that in time with use (twisting cable and moving equipment in and out) it can "move" so much that what's now in a good enough position might move enough that some of the copper wires touch each other directly.. this is of course a worst case scenario, but I guess this might damage the motherboard again. That's my main reason for wanting to do the whole job again and this time 100% perfect. I got the tools. But I can't find a good wire diagram. And the once I found does not match what I saw last night when opening it up. It looks to me that from what I saw when examining the RJ45 to rs232 adapter thingy: first pin down(5pins total) that it is ground. Next one down is first cable from the side, second cable goes to the first pin up(4pins total) third cable goes to the third pin down. Forth cable goes to the second pin up. And so on. So its: up down up down up down etc. I realize that was poorly explained. But the diagrams I found after a quick Google search is NOTHING like that.. the look like it's no system no order. And when splitting up the cables and adapters it's hard to know for sure. Because they are made first by soldering everything up, than the whole connector/plug are put in a cast and a rubber/plastic composition is paired over it. Eventually when it's hardened and dryer the cables are more or less seals and hidden forever. They might look symmetrical or what not from both sides, but they might just as well cross each other inside the rubber/plastic composition. No way to know for sure. I Hope this was somewhat understandable and that someone might shed some light on things for me. Diagrams are welcome. And opinions on if I'm overthinking this or not. And what a actual worst case scenario will be if my wiring eventually will touch. As always my hat goes off to you guys! I always get good help and learn things from you 🏆
  22. Hi! He hope this is right forum. I found the need to make my own EQMOD cable. I have the right length but I did not like the whole USB to rj45 to rs232 thing. So I made a USB to rs232 insted. That worked out fine. But it don't look so good as I hoped. So yesterday I bought all I need to make my own rs232 plugg. Before I start to solder thing up I could have really needed a diagram that shows neq6pro, rj45 to rs232 wiring. Attached a few pictures of my progress. And why I want to redo it. It's not so straight forward as I though just from opening it up.
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