Hi Rolando, This is great info!! I have wondered in the past that if the PEC would not be fully turned off, since there are multiple places to change it (PemPRO, driver, Keypad). The keypad was set

pnagy@... writes: Normal spur gears are more problematic that worms. In a worm set, the driving gear is always wiping sideways and tends to push any dirt out of contact. In the old days

parijat_singh@... writes: It is quite possible that one of your various programs turned PEM on even though you had it off in PEMPro. It could be the keypad sending the command to turn it on.

Hi Peter, I cannot see the worm/gear at all on the AP1200. Nothing of it is visible from the outside. It does not seem dust/dirt can get in there much. I am sure AP has thought the Mach1 design

Hi Peter, The worm and wheel were still nice and clean and the grease, a completely different type, was in good condition. I did take some of the clean grease that had pushed off the worm thread and

And those who do have happy, smiling faces, like in the picture :-) BTW the 'ches' in 'chesmont' is for 'Chester', the county in PA where I live. Small world isn't it, Anthony? Regards, Louis

parijat_singh@... writes: If you have PEM "on" and you have bad data, then it is quite possible that the mount will get a command to stop tracking for a second or two. TURN PEM OFF!!! and do

Hi Floyd, Did you regrease all gears including worm and wheel or just the gears inside the box? Good quality grease should last a very long time. I have read from others that they never touch or open

Hi Peter, Did you happen to see my earlier thread on the gearboxes, where I found that the grease had completely dried out and turned hard? I assume mine was an isolated case and possibly even a case

Hi, I would bet that there was something in the grease. I know that the gearboxes are sealed, but that does not completely dismiss the possibility for contamination. It could even have been a small

I am not sure if you can see the worm wheel on yours but I can easily see it on my Mach1 which concerns me a little bit. I can see how easily dirt can get on the worm wheel. See photo

Hi Parijat, Oh I see. I don't see how dirt can get there, these gears are well protected by the box. Very strange that cleaning and regreasing these gears solved your issue. I hope this issue won't

Hi Peter, Not the worm or wheel (I did not remove the gearbox). Just the gears in the RA gearbox. There are 3 gears, a delrin one and two aluminum including the spur gear on the worm shaft. Here is

Esteemed user group members, et al.: Our phone service will be interrupted for the next couple hours as we switch over to a new system. It would be good to hold off calling our office until after

Glad to hear the good news. Which three gears are you referring? Worm, big worm wheel and spur gear? Peter wrote: placed them back. Did not see any noticeable dirt in there but cleaned all of them

http://www.chesmontastro.org/node/8238 .... I swear this guy looks familiar! Anthony.

http://www.chesmontastro.org/node/8243 ... also check out the comment below the photo. Anthony.

Good to hear you got it sorted out, Parijat! Chris [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Progress at last! I took the 3 gears out from the RA gearbox, cleaned thoroughly and placed them back. Did not see any noticeable dirt in there but cleaned all of them re-greased anyway. And just

Thanks Howard, You are correct, I did get my "Latitude problem" reference, reversed. The weights hitting the pier, would be more likely for a concern with mounts used at LOWER latitudes,