I also have inconsistent polar alignment and thus PAA is quite useless for me at the moment because I have no idea what is the correct result and to which direction I have to make adjustments. My problem is that my results vary depending on which direction (east or west) I rotate telescope.

I use my primary scope for polar alignment and start the procedure from home position. For example yesterday I got following results when I rotated RA-axis 40 degrees:
Alt Az
-02.06.18 -00.28.09
-00.02.47 -00.29.48
Here some adjustments
-00.01.58 00.04.40
-01.12.54 00.06.58

I saved only a couple of results but in all PAA-tests results were similar: Az is quite repeatable regardless of slewing direction but Alt is quite random.

Do you have any ideas where the problem is? Could it be some mechanical issue?

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