Well, of course the weather is not cooperating, cloudy and windy here today, so doubt I'll get it out tonight.? I spent some time familarizing myself with the mount, get my scope on a Losmandy plate and balanced (not much to it), pulled the RA and DEC shafts to clean the clutches and check the grease.? RA clutch pad is in pretty poor shape, DEC is a little better, will order replacements from Losmandy tomorrow and might clean and re-grease when I replace the pads with SuperLube, but the existing grease looked and felt fine.? Got my computer and PHD talking to the mount over Ethernet, firmware was already up-to-date, just need the weather to get better.
I also ordered up some shorter USB cables and a hub that I'll mount on the plate to clean up the cables a little bit, no really good way to run cables on this mount. Oh, also had to order up a new battery for the mainboard, using a CR2032 (same voltage, less mAH capacity) I had with a penny as a spacer to make it work for now.? I'll run it thru the baseline with PHD2 as soon as I can!
Thanks!
Steve
