HEQ5 guide port problem

[pidge010]

Not sure if anyone on the forum has had this problem but I am struggling to guide with my current setup, HEQ5 on a Astro Engineering AC282 pier, Pentax 75 SDHF and a orion guiding scope short tube 80 and a orion guider, I am thinking there is a problem with the HEQ5 mount.

Oh previous to this setup I was using a Celestron CPC 9.25 on a heavy duty wedge on my Astro Engineering AC282 pier, orion short tube 80 guide scope, orion guider and Orion StarShoot Pro V2 camera, all worked fine but I had many mount issues, I had movement and trying to accurately drift align with this setup was impossible because when I retightened the bolts after minor adjustment using PHD and graph I lost everything when the bolts were tightened up, I am new to this and even I know this is a bad design by Celestron, I know there is another Celestron Wedge soon to be available but I am wondering if it has the same issues as the old heavy duty wedge, this whole setup is not good for imaging.

When I try to guide through PHD it takes for ever to calibrate so something is obviously wrong with my current setup, according to Orion it should be guiding within a minute, when I try to guide through Maxim essentials I get all kinds of error messages after exposing, calibrating and tracking, how can I check to see if my guider port on the HEQ5 is working or not?