On Tuesday 30 October 2001 08:03, you wrote:
>
> On a similar note, I just received word from the Anacortes folks that
> my little EM-10 mount, which I dearly love but had put up for sale
> for various reasons and then not sold, is capable of being upgraded
> to the Takahashi Temma GOTO system.
I wouldn't rush out to put a Temma on any mount.
I'm not impressed with it at all. You need 24v
to get 150x slew speeds, which sounds like a lot
but in reality it is ridiculously slow. Operating
at 12v it can do only 50x sidereal.
Better to do a Melsonian conversion. There's also
a new "universal" controller coming out of Germany
that has some promise. These systems need a PC,
but I've heard of speeds in excess of 6 deg/sec
from well designed systems.
It may also be possible to adapt a SS2K to an EM-10,
but you would need to come up with a way to hook
up the servo motors. Seems to be in the realm of
possibility.
-- archer
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