Just a thought but maybe some part of your setup is hitting the forks
or the base?
Are you using a wedge? I have had my LX200 10" hit on a slew with the
CCD camera attatched, not a good feeling . Tracking would be a slow crash
and in the dark it would be hard to see what might be hitting..

Joe Zalac
Commerce Mi.

Tim McMahon wrote:

> I recently have had two occurances of a Dec problem with my new LX200
> 10". On both occurrances I was tracking M51 high in the sky. After an
> hour or so the amp lights go from 4.5 to 7.5 or 8 and don't go back
> down. The last time this happened I was not able to manually move Dec
> but RA was fine (I didn't try GOTO). If I turn off the power and then
> back on every things fine again. This has only happened twice, but I'm
> concerned that this is not something that should be happening.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this type of problem?
>
> Thank you.

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