Dick, thanks for the reply. I did as you suggested and was able to get the HC back among the living. In fact, its outside now talking with the Cartes du Ceil...
The LXD500 mount is one of the easiest to add Go-To to using Autostar if you use the motors Carey mentions. These are the 4504/114EQ motors, also known as DH...
... Congratulations! ... Data bits in a computer are occasionally fragile, or can be corrupted by unexpected circumstances. ... No. (i sit mine on my battery...
Hey, I've already ticked off a CN moderator this week. Don't want to make it two for two! Hyrosalx, It's in the meadelxd500 yahoo group. You'll need to...
hello, I've tried to find answare on autostar groupe but they suggest your groupe :-D I have got LX 2080. Last week I created GOTO. I've used #492 set with ...
Well, the 2080 had a 180 tooth right ascension worm gear. Did you use the original gear? What did you use for Declination? Assuming both gears are 180 T, the...
hello, thanx for link and tips. yes, for Az I use oryginal gear. I add only DS motor. For Alt I bought new gear (120 tooth) and used 2nd DS motor. yes, I have...
Piotr, Then the ratio for RA will be 4.10667 and for Dec it will be 2.73778 Again, you will need to determine the sign of the ratios (positive or negative)...
Hi folks, Anybody cannibalize an LXD55 for the electronics and motors? I might have a use for the remaining mount head and polar scope. Contact me offline if...
Rich,
Have you considered an EQ5 or one of the other clones as these are almost
identical to the LXD55, the only real difference is the length of some of
the...
I have one that I bought from LXD55.com with a hypertune sticker on it. I have not used it and have a couple of other mounts. It has been sitting on my...
Hi Everyone, I'm new to this group, and this is my first message here. I too am in the process (early stages) of converting my mount to Goto. In reading all...
This is basically a troubleshooting forum and consequently what you are mostly going to see are people who are having problems. Those people who don't have...
Joe, I am just completing my retrofit and Chris is correct. This is mainly a trouble shooting forum and a lot of folks just get on with their business after...
Chris, Thanks for that reply. I don't feel as concerned as I did yesterday. I'm the fellow who wrote you the other day, who you just added to your Goto4all...
Fred, Sometimes, the best way to learn is thru trial and error. Did you use the Goto4all in your retrofit? Joe ... is ... knowledge ... (polar ... how ... top ...
My scope is a Konusky 8 inch reflector, and came standard with dual- axis motor drives. I believe they're the same motors and gears that come with any standard...
Joe, yes. I used the Goto4all brackets and setup (Chris helped me get them) and retrofitted a used CG5 mount. I took someone's advice and bought some extra...
Fred, Glad to know you have most of the bugs worked out. Spare parts are good. Hopefully, you won't need many so you can spend your time observing the sky...
... (1) You will have to wait and measure with the brackets installed to find out. My Skyview Pro gears are about the same size and were too small with the DS...
Try looking at an automotive repair forum and you will probably settle for one of those little scooters out of shock and fear of the thousands of problems you...
Hi David, If you need metric gears (or and gears at all), I'd suggest SDP/SI ( http://sdp-si.com/ ). For example, a fairly large metal metric gear tends to be...
I've been told by many... and through some initial experimentation have verified... that a pulley / belt system seems to run a bit quieter on high speed slews...
... Since the pulley/belt is usually only one stage of the reductions, you'll probably still have some backlash issues. And it takes a bit of work to get the...
... metric ... Thanks for the source Darren. I may just make the whole gear train metal from the motor to the worm gear. Speaking of the worm gear, I think it...
... The main things I am avoiding belts for are maintaining tension and the absence of the involute function on it's teeth. The involute curve on the teeth...
Three thoughts on timing belts and cogged pulleys: 1. Timing belts work nicely to absorb motor vibrations. Especially from steppers. 2. Timing belts have the...
