At 06:48 02/02/98 EST, you wrote:
>This last Sat.was the first time I have been able to get out since replacing
>the motherboard, ra & dec motors, on a 10in LX200. When I tried to use scope
>in polar mode it would begin to offset polaris, (motor would run for
>approxamatley 1 second) then stop. I tried six different times always the
same
>results. The scope worked flawlessly in alt-az. Before I make a call to
Meade,
>can anyone make a suggestion as to what to check? All time, date, long & lat,
>and gmt offset, have been correctly entered. Help PLEASE.
>Greg Briles
>Londonderry NH
>

I had this type of problem occur a couple of times because I had forgotten
to switch to "POLAR" in the ALIGN mode. Just a thought.

Rob Roy
Maker of LX200/Magellan II joysticks
INFO- http://worldchat.com/commercial/skyoptics/

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