Joe During part of my career in the oil industry, I spent time as a corrosion specialist for downhole and surface oilfield facilities. I will attempt to explain how metal corrosion works especially as

Hopefully all goes well. Don Anderson

Suresh Then cook the rice afterwards! Don Anderson

Suresh It looks like the heat and humidity where you live is corroding the electrical contacts in your HC internal cable plug. I would suggest you get some electrical contact grease and put that on th

Yes unfortunately. Don

Suresh It is possible that the gear mesh is not set correctly or the set screw that locks the spur gear attached to the worm gear has become loose. Astro-Physics has a procedure for tightening this ge

That's good to hear. Try re-meshing the worm and see what happens. By the way, don't use WD40 on the electrical contact or anywhere else on the mount. If you want to clean the electrical contacts only

Suresh I don't believe the CP3 or4 controller should get warm at all yet alone almost hot. I would check two things. First open up the controller and make sure there is no moisture inside or on the ci

Of course that's true as well. Still sounds like an electrical connection problem. Don Anderson

John Doesn't sound like a hand controller battery problem. The hand pad battery simply maintains the databases when the keypad is not plugged into the mount. It sounds more like a bad connection in th

Yes that is true. The 10-15 sec I took was a very leisurely and careful plug swap to insure I didn't damage the socket. Ten years is an impressive life. Mine was 7 years and the battery voltage was st

Anthony Replacing the battery without plugging the keypad into the servo to maintain power to keypad and not losing the database is very doable and very safe. I did mine a little over a year ago. Belo

David Add to the wish list to be able to remotely switch each of the USB ports on or off via a windows software app Don Anderson

I understand that but does the B&B hub pass the PC power through to the devices even if the hub power is not connected? Don Anderson

Barry Does the UHR207 allow USB power from the computer to pass through to the devices? Don Anderson

The AP counterweight shafts are very robust. There won't be any problem with flexure. Stainless is very strong. Just make sure the connections are tight and that you have the AP fibre washers in place

Ok. Thanks Chris. Regards Don Anderson

Chris What is the SN of the keypad you modded and where did you source the ribbon cable and connector you used for the new display? Don Anderson

Thanks Chris. Building a ribbon conversion cable is probably tricky enough. Figuring out the pin out is something else again. Like you, I don't know if the display pin out changes with the different k

My version is from 2008. It has the latest battery configuration so it may be the latest version. How is the connection between the OLED display and the existing display connector handled? Is the phys