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7 hours ago, swsantos said:

The "noticeable resistance" in the slow motion controls with the motors powered off is relative to the no resistance at all without the motor kit installed however that noticeable reststance is as smooth as butter and does not bother me in the least and in the context of a slow motion control being used to move the mount only a little at a time it is fine. When using the mount manually with slow motion controls my AZ100 is powered off completely.

And I take it no concern with the motors back EMF causing enough voltage to fry something?

Looking at this mount but this line from the manual gives me pause.

Has anyone tried to use it like this ? How does the mount behave in this use case ?  Using the mount manually but still requiring power and and setting changes doesn't seem great

Very interested in this and would like to perform the same mod to my current EQ5 (with an 8" Newtonian F/5)

2 options:

1)Upgrade to a CG5 GT mount or

2) perform this mod, for much cheaper and same performance.

Question: Can this mod be rigged together with another peice of software to provide goto capability via stelarium or similar software?