Re: Needle bearings and axial play, is this a significant performance problem and how difficult is it to fix?
I had the same problem with undersized RA shaft on my old G11. It really needed plating and re-grinding to the correct size, but an MI-250 came along and I took the easy option and sold the mount. The
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Mark Crossley
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#72698
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Re: New G11G Looking for final tweaking advice
resolution is cut in half leading to 7.2 arc seconds per pixel. For 1 arc second total RMS (keep in mind this is plus or minus which is a factor 2), a point source gets smeared out over 14.4 pixels. i
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Brian Valente
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#72697
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Re: New G11G Looking for final tweaking advice
Guiding sub-arcsecond is not nearly sub-pixel in many cases.? For instance for my APS-C sized ASI2600MC and a 1380 mm FL Newt? I have norm([6249;4180])=7518 pixels on the diagonal for a FOV
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HenkSB
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#72696
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Re: Hand box controller problem
My own G2 handset is working fine, but I often notice the "align LCD" message pop up during bootup. That message only lasts a brief time ..maybe a half second? How do you start the screen alignment
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Michael Herman
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#72695
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Re: Needle bearings and axial play, is this a significant performance problem and how difficult is it to fix?
Peter, You made a list of gear elements that result in time-lag "hysteresis," but you left out one cause of DEC hysteresis on the newest SLW system's: It's the loose bottom mounting bolts, holding the
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Michael Herman
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#72694
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Re: Needle bearings and axial play, is this a significant performance problem and how difficult is it to fix?
Alan, Interesting, this was not what Neal Barry said from his experience on this issue. It's no big deal to change out the bearings and/or shim the shaft, so we will see if you are correct on this. I
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Peter Boreland
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#72693
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Re: Needle bearings and axial play, is this a significant performance problem and how difficult is it to fix?
On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 10:58 PM, John Kmetz wrote: > > This information is pretty interesting, Peter. If you have some pics of > the mount with the bearings removed would love to see them. In fact,
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Peter Boreland
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Re: Needle bearings and axial play, is this a significant performance problem and how difficult is it to fix?
Yes, the shaft rattles, but that only has the saddle attached to it.? This does not affect the worm and ring gear engagement since that is set by a separate set of bearings that do not wriggle.?
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alan137
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Re: Needle bearings and axial play, is this a significant performance problem and how difficult is it to fix?
This information is pretty interesting, Peter. If you have some pics of the mount with the bearings removed would love to see them. In fact, there should be a file section here for mount disassembly
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John Kmetz
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#72690
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Re: Yet another DIY spring loaded worm - ultra minimalist approach
Chip, *> Surely the bearing blocks are sitting flush on the deck plate and not as is shown in the photos way up off the base deck!* Yes, of course. I figured showing a picture of bearing blocks in
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Greg
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Needle bearings and axial play, is this a significant performance problem and how difficult is it to fix?
I was asked to start up a sperate thread on this subject, which I think is a good idea as this is a significant issue for some. After making numerous mods, I now realize I should have looked at this
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Peter Boreland
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Re: Hand box controller problem
Lol I¡¯m glad it worked. I discovered the problem by following the scientific method: put it in my pocket during boot up and got it misconfigured by mistake :D Guilherme
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"Guilherme V¨ºnere
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#72687
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Re: Hand box controller problem
You nailed it, Guilherme- many thanks!! Sam Sent from Mail for Windows 10 Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2021 9:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Losmandy_users_io] Hand box controller
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Sam Spalding
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#72686
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Re: New G11G Looking for final tweaking advice
I¡¯d love to but I ha e a DSLR and I don¡¯t think that¡¯s possible my plan is get the 290 and use it with same guide scope. Then this will transfer over to a good OAG camera once I upgrade to an
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Nick Ambrose
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#72685
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Re: New G11G Looking for final tweaking advice
Can you use an OAG? Going from Orion ST80 with the Orion Star Shooter Auto Guider Camera to a QHY-M OAG and ASI174mm camera was a game changer for me.? Now multi-star guiding with 12 stars selected.
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David Malanick
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#72684
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Re: Yet another DIY spring loaded worm - ultra minimalist approach
I have just carefully adjusted both my DEC and RA worms using finger pressure to squash the two ends together and feeler gauges to adjust the gap between the body and the non-motor adjustment block.
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Pete
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#72683
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Re: New G11G Looking for final tweaking advice
Thanks! I am going to check this out. Unless DEC affects the RA, then it is less of a concern right now, although might need some attention When I imaged at DEC=60, RA was insanely good. Last night
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Nick Ambrose
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Re: Yet another DIY spring loaded worm - ultra minimalist approach
Hi Greg, Surely the bearing blocks are sitting flush on the deck plate and not as is shown in the photos way up off the base deck! -- Chip Louie Chief Daydreamer Imagination Hardware Astropheric
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Chip Louie
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#72681
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Re: New G11G Looking for final tweaking advice
I have a very long post describing the DEC axis backlash /g/Losmandy_users/message/71205
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alan137
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#72680
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Re: Changing the servo motor encoders from 256 to 512 or 1024. Any reason not to do this?
Please start another thread to discuss this
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alan137
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#72679
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