Ok I had 30 minutes of clear sky. Fine balanced both axis made a big difference. Ra and Dec 8x bolts very tight Ra and Dec 3x Clutch knobs tightened with hex key. Small test model looks promising. For

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Thank you, yes I tightened all the knobs completely last time. The top plate gap looked perfectly parallel. Fine balanced but its cloudy for days now.

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I meant these tiny spring loaded tips, not the actual knobs.

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I remember my old Losmandy single clutch knob needed a moose to tighten. And I though I was strong with my weightlifting training! But I always thought hand tightening those delicate spring tipped AP

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Thanks Roland for putting my mind at ease yet again! No I just used a short Allen key and no Moose. The model error getting worse was probably due to the poor valance then, its fine balanced now and I

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I tightened the 8 Dec and Ra bolts. they were pretty tight to begin with. I then tightened the clutch knobs all the way down with an Allen key. The gap on the dec axis no longer opened up and the Dec'

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Ok, got it. Will try that. Thanks, Rouz

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Hi Roland, Thank you for the reply. I opened the top plate and tightened all the 8 bolts. They were pretty tight, got another 1/12 turn maybe. Did the same on the RA axis, it got a bit more, 1/6 turn

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Hi Mike, That's good news, thank you for the reply. I suspected something needs tightening. Shipping the mount from Canada and back is a major concern because of the cost and meaning I'll be out of co

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Is this a similar issue posted here with the RA axis of the 1600? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WVpiZHDGjY&t=137s

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Also, with the scope off to one side, the dec clutches are almost impossible to loosen. This indicates the dec bearing play allows the load to be transferred to the dec clutch knobs.

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Any feedback would be great. Is there something I can tighten? More importantly, is there a risk of the telescope falling off? Thanks, Rouz

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I suspect this is the reason I was having a lot of trouble with unguided imaging. My models always had this characteristic and worse on one side (East) with a steady drift in the points error. I went

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After you flip the mount, the gap opens in the opposite direction:

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Im seeing a lot of flex and play in the Dec. axis under load. I noticed the dec axis is always very stiff, I figured this is how the new ones are. Tonight for the first time, after shining a flashligh

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This is what that odd flip looked like: Seems to be ok after the restart and whatever I did.

Might have been a bug somewhere? Once it flipped but only the Dec motor flipped the RA didn't move and the OTA was pointing at the floor! But seems to work now restarted the PC AP V2 driver autoconfig

Thanks Linwood, That used to work a few weeks ago, I'm not sure if it was an update or something I did. I issue I suspect is that Nina says meridian in say 1 minute, but APCCs number is 16 minutes. So

Dale, I wasn't sure this is to do with NINA or APCC settings. Ill try with everything set to default with pier side on, thanks. I'll continue on Discord then?

I have, no responses yet. Not sure if its a Nina setting or something in APCC.