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DEC stalls on new mount


Linda Thomas-Fowler
 

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Hi,

I just received my GM811 today and I¡¯ve been setting it up and testing indoors to get familiar (it is, of course, raining here in northern Virginia).

I have everything hooked up (RA and DEC cables, power to gemini, hand controller attached). I have 16V DC going into the gemini box.

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I have my C8 in the saddle and balanced in both axes.

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I power on and run through the quick start procedure and set all the parameters.

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I tried doing some slews from the keypad. Slewing in RA seems to work fine, loudish in my foyer, but fine.

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I next tried to slew in DEC and ... stall. The messages I receive are:
DEC: Stall!
DEC Heavy Duty Sl.
and at least one other I didn't note down and can't reproduce but it may have been something like:
DEC Heavy Duty/Lag Sl
but I may have that totally wrong.

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Any ideas? I don't see anything in the troubleshooting in and searches haven't turned anything that I can tell is directly relevant.

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Thanks, again for any help!

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