LXD 75 Aligning Problems

Can anyone help me????
I am having some serious problems and great dificulty aligning my LXD 75. The boxes in which the RA and DEC motors keep hitting eachother when they are slewing to a star. So i have to move them away from eachother so that they dont bump into one another. It is recking my head!!! :x Am i doing some thing wrong. Has anyone else experienced these problems.

I trained the drive and calaborated the motors and am standing out in the freezing cold trying without success to get this alined.

Also when i think i do have it aligned it doesn't go to the selected object.

Any help would be much apriciated.
Thanks.

Mechanically speaking the RA and Dec motor assemblies should never touch. Have you at any point disassembled and reassembled them or was this the way the unit arrived?

Hi John

I have the lxd75, and found that it can behave eratically when the batteries begin to lose charge, which can also manifest itself as "not properly doing its GOTO function". Replacing the batteries, seemed to have worked for me in those cases.

Have you been using the mount successfully up to now?

Forgive me if I seem insistent but John says that his RA and Dec motors (I assume he means the moulded housings) keep hitting each other. That should never happen, the mount is designed so that they will always pass one another without making contact, whether or not the batteries are good makes no difference. It's most important to understand why they are coming in contact and fix it.

First fix the mechanical problem, then try new batteries. At this point new batteries could only make the two housings hit one another harder.

Hi guys,

I haven't taken the telescope apart and put it back together again ever.
I should have explained it better, when i try to align it it searchs for a star and as it slews the two boxes meet and jam. I then have to adjust the RA and DEC manually so that they dont keep hitting off one another.

Hi John,

That jamming sounds like an assembly line mistake, it never happens on mine. You should contact the vendor or Meade's European tech support (ss the LXD75 troubleshooting thread for details). Whatever you do I'd say don't go on as it is because it can only result in damage to one or both of the motors.