Oh snap......

[Astroglide65]

Hello everybody,
I got my AVX mount back from being serviced and finally had a chance to get set up and see how it runs. I slewed to an object and started running PHD2, it auto selected a star and I pushed the green button. The red/blue lines started moving and all of a sudden I was told that it stopped because the telescope began slewing.....several times. So I closed PHD2 and started over, this time it worked better for about 10 seconds. The red/blue lines suddenly skyrocketed upward. OK I figured it needs to re-calibrate so I let it select a star and hit shift/guide and began calibration. All was going well until about the 60th West step and suddenly it told me the star wasn't moving enough.....Whaaaaaaaaaat? OK revert to original settings and ran Guide Assistant, things looked great for awhile, it failed the South backlash and told me to check tightness and loose cables etc. Before the mount was shipped PHD2 was running very well, what made it mad at me?

Thanks,
Dano

P.S.
Unguided the mount was knocking out 1 minute exposures pretty good!

[Baskevo]

It could be a million things. First thing I would do is a whole new setup with the setup wizard. I would try a different cable. Also, I would post this question on the PHD2 forums with a guide log, because they can be extremely helpful You can post the guide log here too, but the PHD2 guys are really quick and can tell you the problem 99% of the time right away! Good luck sir!