Thanks Michael & Paul. The mystery goes on. Last night I was trying to evaluate a homemade ¡°on-axis-guider" I made from a Meade flip mirror. With clutch pressure set
as low as I could I kept getting ¡°high drive load¡± reports (system well balanced in all three planes). I tell myself never work on a mount in the dark but I did, not because of the reports but I had conservatively set
the backlash too loose for auto guiding. I removed the motors and began adjusting RA backlash. To my SURPRISE after adjusting backlash and the clutch, the worm torque was well within limits. The only thing different from
the many previous tries is that there was a full load ( 20# scope/camera + 19# weights) on the RA axis. I had NO SUCH LUCK with dec. The RA reports were gone.
Chris
