Hello everybody, As most of you know, I had a lot of trouble out of my LXD75 mount and had to send it in for repairs.
It made it back after only around 5 weeks, they could'nt repair it it as I told them. It had broken pieces on it that came that way out of the box but I dreaded sending it back because I knew it would be gone for so long. So I made due and kept it running till it finally fried out.
It was replaced with a new one and a new autostar as well. I trained the drive at about 1am and started using the old autostar and I thought they had sent me another lemon. It was so jerky and would find stars in the ground and would try to ram the tripod legs. So I tried the new autostar and it centered everything I asked it to goto after the 3 star alignment.
I have never had this much luck before. It centered each and every object 100% of the time. If it would stay like this I would be so happy. Theres no slop in it whatsoever and with the new autostar it is as smooth as silk, it don't make as loud a noise as before. I know I'm boring you guy's to death but I missed my mount so bad and I was getting tired of the DS 2000 series goto mount as they arent as consistent. But I'll have to admit that I had one doing pretty good after I got about a pound of green grease off the plastic parts and used the best parts from 3 DS mounts to build one good one.
Thats all over now I have my LXD75 back now and I will shut up for a while about it except to admit that Jon was right again. They eventually give you service and I was happy with the outcome.
Cheers and clear skies, Darrell
It made it back after only around 5 weeks, they could'nt repair it it as I told them. It had broken pieces on it that came that way out of the box but I dreaded sending it back because I knew it would be gone for so long. So I made due and kept it running till it finally fried out.
It was replaced with a new one and a new autostar as well. I trained the drive at about 1am and started using the old autostar and I thought they had sent me another lemon. It was so jerky and would find stars in the ground and would try to ram the tripod legs. So I tried the new autostar and it centered everything I asked it to goto after the 3 star alignment.
I have never had this much luck before. It centered each and every object 100% of the time. If it would stay like this I would be so happy. Theres no slop in it whatsoever and with the new autostar it is as smooth as silk, it don't make as loud a noise as before. I know I'm boring you guy's to death but I missed my mount so bad and I was getting tired of the DS 2000 series goto mount as they arent as consistent. But I'll have to admit that I had one doing pretty good after I got about a pound of green grease off the plastic parts and used the best parts from 3 DS mounts to build one good one.
Thats all over now I have my LXD75 back now and I will shut up for a while about it except to admit that Jon was right again. They eventually give you service and I was happy with the outcome.
Cheers and clear skies, Darrell
