Am5 problems in Australia 🤯

Vid

Hi to all,
I am on a trip in Australia, setup is am5, redcat 51Wfid, Zwo 2600 Mc duo, asiair mini.
For the last two night, couldnt make the mount align and plate solve, it takes 4-5 tries and then cancel. For some stars, plate solving was ok. Very strange.
Guiding absolutely unable to do, got the 30 degrees warning.
Home position is slightly offset in both axes, dont know why, it was perfect before the trip.
Everything worked perfectly before the trip.
Last night I was able to:

Had to enter coordinate manually after I got no gps message. Did polar align using PA method, but it was like 11 degrees offset then my manual alignment using iphone compass and eyeballing it.
Mount is tracking, i checked it using focus and cross on the screen.
I did PA using stars in Orion.

Later, guiding calibration worked on Orion stars, but guiding was vary bad, like 2"
All other objects south, unable to platesolve, when centered manually, guiding was almost not responding. Tried calibration again, took too long, looked like the mount is responding very slow. Guiding turned green but the box was off and unable to make corrections.
Tried to reinstall firmware, still the same.
I am powering asiair through am5, as always, using 12V car socket.
Can it be power problem? Camera is working ok, imaging and guiding sensor, as always.
Cannot figure out is it the mount problem or the camera problem... dont know how to solve the problem, how to eliminate the errors...
The home position shift is the most strange thing.
I am here for 2 weeks more, traveling from Melbourne to Perth, through Nullarbor, and was looking forward to take some nice images of southern skies objects.
One more thing, I put the mount in a metal suitcase in its original bag, in checked luggage. There was not any signes of dented suitcase, so I suppose it was handled normally.
Is the mount too sensitive to put as checked in luggage?
I am so frustrated now 😭

Vid

Is there anything I am doing wrong, as I am in south hemisphere now ? Is there anything to check ? Coordinates and time is fine...

Vid

Another unsuccessful night. No solve plating, no guiding. PA was offset from compass. Entered the coordinates and point the scope south, adjusted the latitude on the mount.
Turned scope to south milky way, chose a star, put a cross on the screen. When I turn the tracking off, the star drifts to the left. When I turn the tracking on, the star stops and starts to drift slowly to the right and drifts away. Does that mean that the mount is tracking too fast ?

The image is 4 min, piggibacked camera on the mount , 35 mm lens. The tracking was on, I used the controller and manualy guide the star on the screen to stay in the center. That star is somewhere in the middle of the image.
Image looks like a field rotation all around. Can't figure out what is wrong here. 🤯

Astrop

Is it much darker than usual where you're currently imaging from?

You could try adjusting your centre exposure time, I think the lowest is 2s, and for PA you can choose a lot of exposures to suit.

Likely plate solving is failing because the stars are distorted, you could try taking a very short exposure like 1s and try plate solving that. Also if it's very dark, too many stars can also cause the mini to take forever to plate solve, sometimes it just won't.

I'm assuming youre trying to PA to the intersection point between the Southern cross and the two Centuri stars?

Astrop

You could also enable the all sky polar alignment in one of the menus and try that it you haven't already.

resmania

If you have access to your laptop try ASI Studio or NINA. You can also re-calibrate the home position using AM5 app.