Meade LX200GPS Telescope "slew motor" Questions

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Meade LX90 GPS - When the telescope slews to a new location (tour or manual slew), the telescope then slews up a few degrees. I have to manually slew the scope down several degrees and hope I've ...

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...slew up...can hear motor running...any ideas? You did tighten the DEC knob? If you did the altitude gears (a worm gear) is not engaing properly. You can either return it to Meade for repairs or ...

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...motor motion when tried to slew from PC. Could be that the DEC motor driver has died. That could be verified by swapping the connections between the RA and DEC. If the DEC now moves, then that is the ...

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...motor, whilst hearing it work, does not rotate. I've checked the horizontal lock. Is this repairable? I have a Meade ETX-125 that will not slew to the left. It goes alright to the right and up and ...

...slew? And, how do I get inside this mount to fix it? Are you sure it's not actually working (tracking)-- can you hear the motor running? I would contact Orion and make sure you have a manual for the ...

...slew altitude non stop. I diosconnected my CN16 gps unit and it still would not cease slewing until I tuned it off.I have a computerized hand control # 93962 for my Nexstar 8i. Can you solve this ...

Scope is 12.5, 9 years old. We align by going to "named star," selecting one, slewing, correcting, hitting synch. Repeating with another star. Almost always the scope goes to accurately there after. ...

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...motor problem and swaped the scope at the store but the new one is exactly the same. I just dont know what is wrong. Im in the southern skies and only reviews is for the northern, dont know if this ...

...slew up or down only left and right is there a way to fix it? Is it possible to replace the motor or gears? Could be just a bad cable. Contact Meade customer service. ...

The autostar function states the I have misidentified the alignment stars that I use for alignment. NO WAY, Vega and Arcturus. Also one time the scope slewed from Arcturus towards Vega and then ...

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