I actually have the Belleville washers and new bearings mod.
The Oldham coupler is tight too.
No issue with RA since the motion does not reverse.
I got the backlash value from phd2. It automatically adjusts the compensation during guiding and ended at 4000ms which was my Max duration.?
I also directly measured it by moving the Dec at guide speed in photo mode with the hand controller. I placed? an Allen key in the Oldham coupler to easily observe when the shaft starts turning. When I reverse direction it takes at least 4 seconds to see a motion of the shaft.