ultima 8 PEC - weak drive or user?

HI,

Any reason an ultima 8 PEC base would only track when the OTA was weighter pretty heavily to the east? Is this normal? The drive won't even rotate the forks when it's balanced totally neutral. I'm running on a fresh 9V battery.

Could the gears be binding somehow? How does the worm-gear mesh adjustment work and should I mess with it? I really expected for all the cult status this drive base has for it to be less feable. It's pretty much unusable as-is since I'd have to get a huge counter weight to stay east-heavy all the time.

Perhaps I'm doing something wrong here...but the single spur gear non-byers mount I traded up from was stronger than this.

Thanks!

Whoops - I said weighted to the east, I meant west as in pulling the scope in the direction the drive should be going. It only tracks when balanced heavier that way.

Andrew:


I have a similar scope to yours. Here is the thread that may answer some of your questions: http://www.astromart.com/forums/viewpost.asp?forum_post_id=680324&poll_id=&news_id=&page=3