Anyone Done A HEQ5 Synscan Upgrade..

[Greg]

If so is is fairly easy??

And what's it like to use???

Cheers

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Its a doddle mate, really easy.

Using it is also easy once you get used to the USA version of inputing the date month-day-year wise. Goto is very close even with one star alignment and spot on with a three star align. Slewing is quiet and quite fast and the database finds more stuff than I've heard of.

Captain Chaos

[GazOC]

Russ did the upgrade on my mount and said it was easy. You just unscrew the face plate, take out the two old motors and screw in the new ones.

Its pretty easy to operate, nice and quiet.

[GazOC]

Using it is also easy once you get used to the USA version of inputing the date month-day-year wise.

That cost me two hours observing first time out. :insects1: :insects1: :insects1: :insects1:

[moondog]

Yes, I did the upgrade last year.

It was easy and took about an hour, though charging the battery that comes with it took about 30 hours.

Motors very fast and more or less silent.

Easy to use- if you input date correctly !

MD

[Kai]

Using it is also easy once you get used to the USA version of inputing the date month-day-year wise.

That cost me two hours observing first time out. :insects1: :insects1: :insects1: :insects1:

Ditto,it was a real Homer moment when i realised, DOH !!!!!

[Chris Graham]

Using it is also easy once you get used to the USA version of inputing the date month-day-year wise.

That cost me two hours observing first time out. :insects1: :insects1: :insects1: :insects1:

Hahahah me too !