Wasn’t sure if or how it would work, since it’s my first goto Mount. With the mount set to a latitude of about 34 degrees, and with a light load on the mount, the stock 12-pound counterweight rides high on the shaft. How I made a better Celestron AVX I'm in no position to complain, I got my AVX for jellybeans because a surplus shop thought it was broken. I encountered one other problem. While most people will not have a problem with their new AVX, my experience and the experiences of more than a few other purchasers show Celestron's QA can be spotty to the point of nonexistent. Re: Celestron AVX mount problems I would follow Gabby's advice and if you still have issue, be sure to look at actual home info for location. Be prepared. Took my Celestron AVX Mount out this afternoon to familiarize my self with it in the daylight. I have managed to autoguide with this setup, but have problems with PHD2 since polar aligning - it did need it. Wasn’t sure if or how it would work, since it’s my first goto Mount. It locked on my location very quickly so I did the Quick Align option just as a test. I had something like that happen in my LX-200 where I had entered home position and timezone but for some reason it did not take, and scope thought it was somewhere in MiddleEast upon further inspection of home data info. I purchased a Celestron AVX German equatorial mount in November, 2014, and I have had no issues with mine. I got it setup per the directions and attached the SkySync GPS. I use an (optional) polar alignment scope to aligned the mount with the North Celestial Pole (NCP), perform the 2-star alignment from the hand control, and then add two more calibration stars to get the alignment spot-on. And am now getting rather confused over the actual profile settings choices. Took my Celestron AVX Mount out this afternoon to familiarize my self with it in the daylight. 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