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Leave RAPAS installed or not?
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Roger Howard
What are your thoughts? I will 99% of the time just be transporting my ATS Portable Pier with my 1100 GTO to the backyard to set up. I will uninstall if I move it by vehicle. Do you leave yours installed all the time or put it in a case?
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Phillip H Coker <pcoker36@...>
I transport my roll-off observatory (Losmandy tripod on a Wheely-Bar) in the back of my 5th-wheel toy-hauler. It is strapped down so that it cannot move when the rig is underway. For travel I remove the weights and everything off the mounting plate but leave the RAPAS attached to the 1100GTO. I also drop the mount all the way down because, invariably, I won't be setting up at the same latitude next time. So far, there has been no problems with leaving the RAPAS attached.
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Phil
On Mar 6, 2021, at 11:54, cargostick@... wrote: What are your thoughts? I will 99% of the time just be transporting my ATS Portable Pier with my 1100 GTO to the backyard to set up. I will uninstall if I move it by vehicle. Do you leave yours installed all the time or put it in a case?
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You could do it either way.
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Bill Long
If you do just make sure you don't have cabling dangling around that could snag.
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Sent: Saturday, March 6, 2021 10:54 AM To: main@ap-gto.groups.io <main@ap-gto.groups.io> Subject: [ap-gto] Leave RAPAS installed or not? What are your thoughts? I will 99% of the time just be transporting my ATS Portable Pier with my 1100 GTO to the backyard to set up. I will uninstall if I move it by vehicle. Do you leave yours installed all the time or put it in a case?
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Woody Schlom
Depending on your cable dressing, cables can snag on the RAPAS. So once aligned, I remove mine to reduce cable snag problems.
Woody
From: main@ap-gto.groups.io <main@ap-gto.groups.io> On Behalf Of cargostick@...
Sent: Saturday, March 6, 2021 10:54 AM To: main@ap-gto.groups.io Subject: [ap-gto] Leave RAPAS installed or not?
What are your thoughts? I will 99% of the time just be transporting my ATS Portable Pier with my 1100 GTO to the backyard to set up. I will uninstall if I move it by vehicle. Do you leave yours installed all the time or put it in a case?
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Roger Howard
Yes, I can see that cabling could definitely be a problem as I image all the time. I've seen a few mentions of striking the RAPAS but I can't envision my current rig reaching that far. The cables are another issue though. Thanks for the insight!
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It is so easy to install and remove the RAPAS (3 screws) that I think the prudent thing to do would be to remove it after you have polar aligned.
Mike
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