Train Drives

Rainy today so it was a good day to Calibrate and Train my ETX70 drives. Calibrate is simple and automatic and needs to be done when power supply changes are made. Training was done with my 10x eyepiece and a slow slew rate. I need to redo this when I can train using Polaris. My new focus extender worked well, for awhile. As I was finishing up it broke! I re-glued the knob and will see if that fixes it. The ETX site says that training is indicated by 'rubberbanding' or when the drives slew away from a target that has been manually positioned. Mine does this a lot at higher power. Hopefully this will cure the problem.