MikkoI wrote: I have a HEQ5 Pro as well and I have had strange alignment/slewing problems lately when I start the session. These are usually fixed by returning the mount to park position and then disconnecting all equipment, stop & start INDI/EKOS again. Usually that does the trick by starting it again from "fresh" park position. I usually start the session with Polemaster polar aligment and I use the mount control to rotate mount and then return it to park position. I'm not sure if that is the reason for the strange slewing problem.

When I did a full restore to my Stellarmate I forgot to change the time zone correctly which caused this method to fail and I was not able to slew the mount to anywhere correctly, so that is one thing to check.

Update to this issue - the align and slewing problems were caused by faulty battery so this was a power issue for sure. I had a similar problem a week ago again and I noticed that the HEQ5 led was blinking so I checked the voltage from my battery and it was so low that my other equipment started to fail as well shortly. Now I replaced the battery with a new AGM 60ah car battery and everything works really well. Alignment is very fast now - slew to target, plate solve, one correction slew and the target is right in the center. Very pleased!

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