Bobby Zamora

Thank you very much for your answers! Belt tension sounds interesting - @1parsec mentioned how to check it, but how to do this if i will need to fit them tighter? Without full mount disassemble i just can see partly my belts stick out and all i can do is to try fit motors to belts and then pull them higher so that belt tension will be tighter - like this? I'm little bit afraid of disassemble mount because it wasn't easy, to be honest:) Thanks newbie alert, usually i'm leaving drift allign to 5 minutes flat line. Thanks much Ian for your advices, will try to check everything. Belt tension is worth trying, hope it's a core of a problem I do guiding with a 50/200 guidescope, details in phd are correct . Hello Thalestris! I'm in Russia, Saint-Petersburg, i usually do PA with drift alignment procedure - i did it for last two years, and my guiding used to be very very good. Guidescope attached with big dovetail to tube rings - connection is pretty tough. I've tested it with no wind, and, as i mentioned, i got good guiding result for last year, in any weather (from -20 to +20), any time, any seeing. And yes, the data in phd is 100% correct. Thank you mos! Will try do something with belt tension. It's hard about neq6 because you can't see the belt movement when motors are screwed. But i can see the shaft, i tested slewing back & forward and seems to response from motor to shaft was pretty quick. But anyway, i'll check it again twice. Hello 1parsec, thank you very much! This is extremely helpful for me, will try it soon. And i really hope that tension is the problem Thanks again to everyone ❤️ Regards

Hi everyone! I’m having huge troubles with guiding on my NEQ6 mount. I’ve started receiving big spikes in my guiding few month ago (before it, guiding was perfect), so i decided to do belt mod - and I’m still can’t make it works well So, what I’ve done? Belt mod, new lubricant Worm adjustment from astro-baby article - I don’t feel any play in both axis when I shake my mount with clutches locked. Motors rotating mount very soft and without any extra sounds Balancing - tried many many variants, now my tube is not dropping in any way after losing clutches, so seems to be balancing is very good Polar align with phd2’s included drift alignment feature - on last guiding assistant session error was around 2 arc-min (not so bad, I think), on drift procedure I got almost flat lines for 5 minutes (both axis). Currently I’m trying to guide with same ra/dec parameters that was few months ago, when guiding was perfect Tried two different eqdir cables, two main boards, different usb’s, pc’s - Mac and zwo’s asiair - result is the same Mount level is perfect, and there is no nearby shaking I attached all logs and screenshots from guiding process and guiding assistant. Also tried to capture checking for play in both axis, and balancing (sorry, my videos are really not so informative) https://drive.google.com/open?id=1M1AEekBUwq94-qj77fW4_y9xm-ENKfCB Seems to be i tried everything, and now i feel myself very upset and i really don’t know what to do. Any advices? Thanks in advance for any help! My full specs are: NEQ6 belt modded, PHD2 2.6.6, EQDIR hitecastro, ZWO ASI 120mm, 50/200 guidescope, balcony Regards & Clear skies ps sorry if topic may be in wrong place, i’m completely newbie in this forum PHD2_GuideLog_2019-07-27_015056.txt