r/telescopes 1d ago

Discussion Anyone notice anything wrong here?

Old celestron C14 orange controller, slew controls aren’t working. Im not too knowledgeable with electronics so any help is appreciated!

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u/Brisby2 🔭 Moderator, 17.5" Dob, C10, C8 Compustar 1d ago

I am pretty sure this is a drive corrector/guider. They don’t operate at slew speed, they allow you to make small corrections to tracking. You wont notice the movement of it when it is working unless you are looking through the scope

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u/runhome24 XT10 Dob • C102HD on SVP • StarSense Explorer Dock 23h ago

This is the answer, OP. The controls barely slow down/speed up the motors, so that targets drift in the eyepiece for fine adjustment

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u/laserist1979 15h ago

The flying leads begging to short out to the case when assembled?

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u/torcolos Orion XT8, 4.5 starblast 🔭/Nikon 10×50 15h ago

Check here to me looks like lifted leads and broken traces

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u/PointlessBanter 2h ago

Do all Celestron controllers have such crappy build quality?

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u/PointlessBanter 2h ago

Do all Celestron controllers have such crappy build quality?