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If you fully crank on the clutch lever you push the ring gear sideways causing binding on parts of the axis travel

I'm not that familiar with the CG-4 but I'm guessing it's the predecessor to the Avx... As they're all made by synta they all work on the same principle... The motor turns a gear on its shaft that is linked into a gear that's on the end of the worm shaft, the middle of the worm shaft is linked into the main gear( ring gear) which drives the mounts axis You have two areas of meshing... 1. The cog on the motor to the worm on the worm shaft 2. The worm mesh setting which sound like the one you done, which as you know needs very little adjustment from having quite abit of slack to fully locking up.. Did you test after tightening the bolts on the worm housing? Another thing to look at is the locking nut on the bottom of the shaft where the bearing is, only needs to be tight enough not to have lateral play, don't over tighten as that can sandwich the axis up Hope this helps

You may need to compromise abit of backlash on your gear mesh, having them too tight can lock the axis up...just one of the many things to stop it from performing

Are you sure you have your spacing correct, stars pointing to the center indicate that you need more

I've used a Avx, can't say that I remember having any problems focusing with a eyepiece, planetary cam, CCD or a DSLR.. Common issues, or do you mean design faults?

It most definitely microlensing effect from the 1600

I'd save my money towards something that doesn't shake like a jelly on a plate

FLO have 19 in stock atm https://www.firstlightoptics.com/zwo-accessories/zwo-electronic-automatic-focuser-eaf-5v.html

So your using a 8 inch tube on a wobbly mount then You can find theses issues if you look/ research on u tube/ Google... If you don't then you won't find them

Nice set of images Why aren't you impressed It would be better with more data, 20x3 mins of luminance is an hour, and I'd double the luminance to the rgb I'd be doing 5 min subs instead of 3 for the RGB and I'd be doing 10 mins on the Ha With any camera a few hours of integration the data is far easier to work with than just 1

Load up a single sub or the stack output... Most of what I'm seeing is processing artifacts.. so eliminate those and see if there's any other issues

You can buy different bracket to fit different focusers I just want one for visual.... What do you need a autofocuser for visual, just use a bahtinov mask

Does it need to be a Celestron? Feedback suggests that they have large numbers of the same problem.... I'd buy a zwo EAF personally

Have it on full and I have it a little Infront of the cell as you want it heating the air rather than the cell itself... Never personally had an issue with my esprit

Yes nice Stuart, must be pleased with that..

If you have another laptop then just use TeamViewer or anydesk and use it remotely through your WiFi

Before you adjust things it may well just be down to atmospheric conditions.. thin high cloud isn't always seen by the naked eye but it will have an effect of guiding, did you notice the FWHM or hfd of the guide star a higher figure than normal.. maybe worth another trial before you adjust.. only adjusting if you really need to

Did you set the worm whist inside, say for instance its 20 degrees and then using it at say -4 that could be enough depending on how finely you set it, did you check again after tightening the worm bolts, I'd also have it loaded as that's how it's going to be used You could have binding issues from how tight the shafts locking nut is, many have experienced that from being factory set..

Have a look here and download Looks like 6.6 is the latest version https://www.ascom-standards.org/Downloads/Index.htm

Looking at the specs with the flatener the 150 has a image circle of 44mm , with the reducer it shrinks this down to to 36mm and from the blurb it says up to APS-C sized sensors.. I'm not sure if it be ok without the reducer if a as the asi 2400 has a sensor diagonal of 43.3, I'm sure I read somewhere that it needs 2-3mm under tollerance...

I use ASTAP and sometimes platesolve2.. when I installed platesolve2 I had to also install the UCAC3 file... Tweak the settings and I've never had an issue... Assume the platesolve3 to use the UCAC4 and direct it in the same manner

Only on a good day

No there's a mount under there somewhere

I wish!!