At 6:50 AM -0300 4/21/99, Blair MacDonald wrote:
>I finally got my mount back after shipping it to Meade for a runaway dec
>problem. They replaced everything in the drive except the ra motor/encoder
>assembly. Now my problem is dec backlash, it is so bad that when trying to
>find M82 the unit is way off (over a degree), after doing a synch on M82 the
>unit is able to move in dec (in the same direction) right to M81 with no
>problem. When asked to go back to M82 the drive turns on the dec motor
>briefly but the scope does not move from M81.
>
>Is there any adjustment of the belt drive from the dec motor that could
>help?

There is not belt in the LX200 drive. But there are adjustments.
See the archives!

Bill Arnett
http://www.seds.org/billa/
"I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search
out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch
the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of
ambrosia, the food of the gods." -- Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)

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