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nightfisher

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I am plotting and scheming with an idea to motor drive my skytee mount, this might not go any where, but what i have in mind is a couple of the cheap EQ1 type units.

At this point i must stress at this point all i want to do is be able to track for 10 to 20 seconds for AVI capture with my 150 Maksutov, so first thing is will this work, and how to mount these units with very limited tools 

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I only managed to get one motor, but im pleased to say i have sourced the second one, both the same with north south switch and variable speed, mounting these units now looks a lot more simple than i first thought, i will post my results with pictures when the job is done

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Jules, a crazy thought but have you considered putting the SkyTee on some sort of simple Wedge? You could then do a very rough 'polar align' and would only need to power one axis, so would only need one motor.....

Any good?

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Nice idea Stu, but takes away from my objective, the idea is to have a heavy duty simple alt az tracking mount that will give up to 20-30 seconds tracking for luna avi, i can still source the same motors but at double the price, however if i do this mod and it works how i want, it means i will only ever need the one mount

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