DSX FEEDBACK Last updated: 13 August 2008

This page is for user comments and information applicable to all DSX models. Comments on accessories and feedback items appropriate to ETX and DS models are posted on other pages. If you have any comments, suggestions, questions or answers to questions posed here, e-mail them to me and I'll post them. Please use an appropriate Subject Line on your message. Thanks.

Subject:	DSX-2090MAK Alt. drive "Pinging".
Sent:	Monday, August 11, 2008 19:51:41
From:	stange (stange34@sbcglobal.net)
Thanks for previous info on 495 extender cable. I have avoided being
familiar with telephone nomenclature in the past so it is hard for me to
describe what I try to do accurately and to understand phone/networking
adapters. Radio shack is pretty much a mushroom colony so no help there.

Anyway... Something new now. I picked up a near-new DSX Maksutov 3.5
inch with a 495 controller at a yard sale. Everything checked out but I
noticed an unusual "ping" or "ringing" sound eminating from the Alt.
motor area only during equatorial tracking. Anyone have any definite
answer on the cause?

To date I have not been able to find a broken single-arm Autostar mount
to tear apart to discover how to take the upper assy apart (properly)
and to give me a diagnostic base for future problems. Anyone have a
mechanical drawing of the Autostar single arm mount? Or know how to
non-destructively remove the (upper) housing beyond knob and axis shaft
components removal?. Tnx.

Larry Stange 

Feedback Archives

Check the Feedback Archives for previous editions of the Feedback page.

Go to the ETX Home Page.