Well, that was quick :-) Thank you

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No need for having the mount on during balancing. No need to redo the model after balancing either. Rolando

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Soon I will need to make some minor changes to my equipment (basically remove the guide scope and replace it with the Pegasus Pocket Powerbox Advance). Obviously I will need to rebalance the mount and

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Shailesh you can do a simple comparison 1. Take a 5 minute sub (or whatever longer exposure) with encoders on. 2. Next disable the encoders in APCC 3. Take another sub of the same length 4. Compare tw

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All three of them can show periodic error, or as you say a "tracking graph". While encoders will eliminate the main problem of periodic error, they cannot eliminate the slow drift in both RA and Dec c

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Thank you, Rolando. Greatly look forward to some unguided imaging with my AP Stowaway, 130GTX and FSQ106. BTW how do I ascertain tracking is cleaner compared to say my Paramount MX without encoders. I

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The blue and green means that the encoders are happy and getting solid signals. There is nothing else that you need to do. The mount is set to run under encoder control. Rolando

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Rolando, Thanks to George and Liam, I was able to program the personality #120 into the CP4, VIa APCC now I see encoders enabled. Does one blue and one gree light mean the signals are solid? Besides m

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Please contact George on Monday and he will help you install the encoder personality into your CP4. Rolando

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Fix the personality, did you contact AP to do that or did they reach out to you? They did that for me without even having to ask, so I assume they did the same?

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Today I installed the Renishaw AEs on my AP1100GTO. I am a newbie, what do I need to do to initialize them and turn them on? Shailesh

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Hello, The Mach2GTO and the 1100GTO are both in production at present, and each has a notification list. We do not know how many people on the notification lists will actually purchase a mount, theref

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What is the difference in wait time for the 1100 vs the mach2 ?

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On paper and in the real world, yes the 1100 has greater weight capacity. The reason is that the 2 gearwheels are larger on the 1100. That is the primary thing that determines how much scope you can p

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It does. It's also more expensive with encoders.

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In terms of capacity, is there a significant difference between these mounts? The 1100 seems very slightly heavier but can be separated easily into 2 parts. On paper, it appears to have much greater w

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Thank you for all you kind comments. No disrespect taken for Jim's postings. I love all ya'll. Stay safe and be well. Clear skies!! Steve Hoffman

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I understand what happened. I'm pointing out that while inadvertent, it still ends up hijacking the thread because subsequent readers see your embedded photo and a question about the eyepiece turret a

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Absolutely no disrespect intended. I responded to the image stating how beautiful it is and, because, I have read so much about Mach 2 mounts I decided to just send a picture of my Mach 1 and, unfortu

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I know it's unintentional but can we please show some respect for Steven and his superb image and open a new thread if you want to talk about somebody else's gear instead of his image? Stuart Heggie h

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