John, Very good solution. Nice clean brackets - elegant. Mine is less so. A few bits of angle bracket plenty of screws, nuts and bolts - it more of a...
Hi, Ken, You might also like to take a peek at my DS motor installation. Get there via the Equipment section on my menu page. Main site URL listed below....
I have a modified eq3 goto. Things work fine...but the mount is just to jittery. Has anybody had success adding gyro stablization to mounts? This seems to be...
I suspect a suitably engineered vibration free gyrostabiliser would buy you an Astrophysics 900 mount! Try hanging a weight, for example a bag of sand, from...
Hi, I could be interrested... When you talk about "brass gears", does I understand it's to replace the 3 or 4 "plastic gears" that we have inside each DS60...
In case somebody is interested, it is very easy to modify the DS motor end caps to use 2 ballbearings to support the brass output shaft , I did it in my belt...
Peter, ... listed ... then ... Your site has been an inspiration - I found the site some time ago, it convinced me that such a conversion was possible. The...
Hi, Ken, Thanks for the kind words. Incidentally, should you wish to revamp your mod, I notice that Maplin no longer lists the connectors I used. But I have...
Hi Thierry, The gears referred too are the small plastic compound gears in the DS motor itself (there are 3 of them all the same in the motor) and it is the...
Hi Peter, Thanks for the Offer - i'll try the EQ3 vane mod first, if that fails then i'll get the DS motor kit - I think I remember that you said you had...
Thanks for a sight for helping a newbie looking at diffrent mounts. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo!...
Just a reminder to anyone who may be interested, that I offer a downloadable freeware calendar program (see my software page) which shows Moon phases. It's...
Hi john, Thanks for your explanation ! Were can I find the "hoto section in the EQ3 Mod folder" that you have mentionned ? I understand that it's not so easy...
I have seen the photos of Jason Glass' G11 in the files section and would like to hear from him or anyone else that has done this conversion as I would really...
Hello all, I am looking for people's experiences with roboscoping older non- goto Meade and Celestron SCT or Mak scopes . I got convinced (coerced?) by my son...
Meade has released v3.4Ec on their support page http://www.meade.com/support/auto.html ... Upgrades to 34Ec Fixes moon tracking problem Improved pointing on...
hi everybody, This is my first message to the group. I am trying to catch all the messages being sent by the group users. I have a question about Konus eq...
There is no problem. The hand controller only allow you very small drift corrections (up to 8x sideral). This does not allow you to slew from one object to...
Hi, Fırat It sounds as though your mount is performing correctly - the motors fitted are simply for fine position adjustment and tracking, not for slewing....
Hi friends, First, thanks for your answers. You reminded me something that i missed :). It is good to hear that tracking system works normal, it is bad to hear...
Hi everyone, I thought I had better let everyone know that due to a run on the DS motor brass compound gears I ran out of them but I have now got the first of...
Fantastic! I am sure there will be a lot of members whou would LOVE to buy a kit or hire a contractor instead of busting their knuckles or cramping their...
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Hi All, a year or two ago, I converted my Dob push-to Dob to an Autostar driven one. Back then, I posted pictures of the mods but never followed through with...
Hey guys.......... I'm new to the group....Mark from Florida. I need either an RA DH motor or a complete set of DH motors (dec and ra)for a goto conversion I'm...
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