Neq6 upgrades

[Nigella Bryant]

Hi all, I've been hyper tuning my neq6 mount over the last couple of years and upgrading parts. In the past couple of years I've upgraded the bearings on the Ra, Dec and drive mechanism. Done a Rowan belt mod, upgraded the counter weight bar and today added the eq wedge. Probably not as economic as selling the mount and buying say another mount with all that already but I'd be starting over again to hyper tune it as most Chinese mounts need some sort of tweeking to get the most out of them. Also doing it this way means small amounts of outlay at a time. It's a mount I'm keeping and I do love the do it yourself aspect of doing upgrades. Of course I've alway's got help from bud. 

[jambouk]

Looks really lovely. Do you have any metrics on how the mods have altered performance? Backlash, periodic error etc?

James

[Nigella Bryant]

8 hours ago, jambouk said:

Looks really lovely. Do you have any metrics on how the mods have altered performance? Backlash, periodic error etc?

James

Hi James, mods have made the mount more stable, quite and free from backlash. The best mod was the belt drive and the wedge. Pec is enabled in software so this is virtually eliminated as well. 

[Nigella Bryant]

Now in place on piller ready to pa, 70mm overkill but I use that to pa and then add the 12inch plus weights so I can tighten things up easier with the smaller weight ratio. 

[jambouk]

Nice.

Is upgrading the power socket on the future list of jobs? Something with a screw-type connection, like the one on the newer Skywatcher mounts - nothing worse than a power disconnection midway through a session. 

[Nigella Bryant]

1 hour ago, jambouk said:

Nice.

Is upgrading the power socket on the future list of jobs? Something with a screw-type connection, like the one on the newer Skywatcher mounts - nothing worse than a power disconnection midway through a session. 

I've thought about it but never had a problem with it disconnecting.