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Subject: Re: [M]: Dec "freeze-up"
From: Ric L Ecker
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Mon Sep 15 20:25:01 1997


On Sun, 14 Sep 1997 21:17:12 -0700 (PDT) Allen Ginzburg <alleng@sco.COM>
writes:
>David,
>
>The same thing happens to my scope when I run it on less than
>18V. Mine is one of the ones that was originally spec'd for 12V,
>but after upgrading it to the new 3.3 motherboard and having
>Meade mess with the DEC drive it now only works on 18V even
>though it originally worked fine on 12V. It seems that under
>certain conditions the DEC motor just stalls.

>Allen
Your dec assemble must be tight, the ver 3.34 will operate on
12volts.................



ric http://members.aol.com/rlecker/ric.html
drift alignment , mirror shift etc.
> Here's a new problem I'm having. For the first hour or so of an
>observing
> session, everything works fine (using the 4th dec motor I've
>replaced so
> far). After that, the telescope will intermittently "freeze up" in
>
> declination. If I enter an object on the keypad controller, the
>telescope
>
>