Re: East-Heavy Guiding With G11T?
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Hey George,
I'm not a G11T user but I do use East-Heavy with my G11G and I have noticed an improvement in general. I had an ADM balancing weight with a vixen clamp and I 3D printed a sleeve that clamps around my DEC Axis around the polar-scope area. The East side has a vixen shaped part that the clamp can attach to. I've noticed that a near perfect balance in RA and DEC results in a little less RA chatter during guiding and my guiding seems to have gotten a little more consistent with my 10" newt.  Sorry I'm not answering your direct question, as I don't have a G11T, but just wanted to offer one solution. Hope you don't mind. I can only imagine the G11T would also benefit from this without the spring loaded worm. Another option that was recommended by Michael Herman included a loop of rope around the RA EXT knob on the west side that wraps over the top of the RA EXT and down the left side of the mount. At the bottom of that rope is a hanging weight that puts a constant pressure on the East side of the RA axis. I'll see if I can drum up a photo.
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Ryan Noonan