Put as much as you want, the grease will spread itself out. Roland

You can grease that part too. The clutches won't slip when they are tightened. Rolando

Well, good luck to you. Building a house in Hawaii is not for the faint of heart. Trust me, if i suggested building another house in Hawaii, Marj would have me wrapped in cellophane, stuffed and locke

It's still there and in active use. Rolando

For those who are interested, The Mauna Loa eruption on Hawaii Island is continuing and lava is now flowing down the mountain to the saddle between Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea. The telescopes on Mauna Kea

A Woolly Mammoth after being extruded thru the fan blades of a 747. Rolando

The clutches on our 1100/1600 mounts act as variable positioning devices for the scope. It's the same kind of action as taking your scope and mounting it sideways or flipping it 180 degrees in the rin

Any time a move command is issued, this requires the mount to unpark. Parking the mount disables power to the motors while keeping the electronics active so that they can respond to external commands.

Sounds like very bad polar alignment. With good polar alignment the stars won't drift in Dec, so PHD2 would only occasionally send a guide pulse. PHD2 also has a routine for checking Dec backlash, and

That's not an unusual sound for that gearbox when the pinions and gear teeth are dry. It appears to me that you also need to re-grease the worm as well as the spur gears. When you say it won't guide w

Can you slew to the star region where the problem occurs and check with eyepiece, or with camera set to video mode, or with fast capture 10 frames per second, and see what is happening in that part of

It all depends how much pressure you are putting on the end of the counterweight shaft. That's because for every ounce of pressure you put on the shaft, you are putting a pound of pressure on the gear

A fine start on your road to imaging. Rolando

Sounds delicious. Rolando

Look thru the scope, slew to a star and see what happens at the end of the slew. Use an eyepiece! Rolando

The clutch should move freely with the adjustment knobs fully backed off. If you can't get it to work properly, call Dave here at AP and he will help you make any adjustments. Roland

Your capture software is taking pictures while the mount is still slewing to the end point. You will have to set a longer settle time in that software so it takes pictures when the mount has stopped s

Use something lighter. Clutches do not need heavy gear grease. Roland

If the mount parks and homes correctly, then there is nothing wrong with the mount or the electronics. It seems you have a software problem that sends the wrong initialization information to the mount

The axis is not stiff. It's the clutch that's stiff. A clutch is a device which allows you to decouple the scope from the gear wheels without lifting the worms out of mesh.The clutch has some grease o