LOL, John.

I truly wish there was a better way to keep that D-cell battery pack than just hanging that heavy box off the altitude bolt. I'm going to get some new Velcro with a better adhesive to hold the controller box to the tripod legs, as the strip that came with the motor/controller/battery pack kit had a pretty poor adhesive on the back. I hope to find a strip with a good adhesive so that I can maybe also hold the battery pack to the tripod legs, too.

If frequency is what regulates the stepper motors in these RA or DEC drives, then the solutions might be expensive. I'm no means all that knowledgable in electronics, but I've never heard of a cheap controlled frequency power supply.