I just understood what Rolando is saying, that's a good idea - cover the unit itself further with a Ziplock bag... - Mikko

Ditto, I keep the Telegizmos open from the bottom so the air circulates and the mount stays out all year around. The rain must have happened during one of the sessions in the night. I had the first ru

I can easily believe this. I’m using a rain app but it’s not bullet proof so I’m sure the unit got wet at some point. Unfortunately this is the best I can do at this point. What’s interesting is that

Thanks Rolando, appreciated! - Mikko

Rolando I find your comment disappointing assuming that I have done something like this. I have never left the lever to any other position than fully engaged. As a matter of fact I don't touch my moun

To put a closure on this, the mount was shipped to AP a few weeks ago and I received a mail today indicating that the issue is fixed. The attached service report states; "Confirmed that mount is not c

Here's the link for the video; https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XaoLKrcg-IDLt4CfK7N3HrpyfOaboHlg/view?usp=sharing I haven't heard yet if I should send the Mount back to AP or if this is something I ca

OK so my happiness lasted for a week and now the issue is back. Or at least I assume (hope?) that this is related to the problem. The mount refused to connect today through the SGP and when I disconne

I never opened the Dec gearbox so I don't know what's going on there. When I first connected the Dec side of the cable to Ra and had the Ra box open, the quick rotation I explained happened. After I j

If both RA and Dec motors produce a yellow light then the mount is probably ok. It indicates that there's a loose connection between the controller and the mount gearboxes, most likely in the RA cable

This is what I did previously and the gears rotated 180 degrees and the Yellow light came on. I’ll verify this one more time but at the moment everything is working again and I don’t want to touch it

OK, I didn't thin that I can move the control unit so that both cables reach when swapped. I'll try that one more time today when I get home. If that fails, should I just call to 815-282-1513 number?

No lose wires that I can see. - Mikko

OK, plugged the RA to Dec (cannot plug Dec to RA as it’s too short) and nothing happens. When I open the gearbox cover I see the gears turning about 180 degrees and that’s all. Mikko

I already tried the second Y cable which I ordered. I can’t believe the cable is the issue unless the brand new Y cable is faulty also. - Mikko

Yes previously the slew took longer and was more random. So long that a couple of times I had to cut the power so that the scope won’t hit the tripod. No encoders in Mach1, not at least in mine. If by

Well I changed the power unit first yesterday and that didn’t help. Neither did the power cord and actually at this point the mount even refused to connect. So I had not high hopes when I changed the

Thanks for the comments and recommendations. OK, what’s the easiest way to measure the voltage to the mount? I think I have a multimeter somewhere. I did end up buying another power source from Amazon

I have everything running from the same power unit, this since the day 1 two years ago. Nothing has changed and everything else still works fine. I’m not planning to have a separate power for the moun

This started a week ago when I would suddenly get a Yellow warning light with a random slew when connecting the mount with the SGP. My first thought was that the control unit has condensated again but