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HowardK
professor emeritus

Reged: 10/20/10

Re: AZ EQ6 in the US? new

[Re: opticsguy]
#5624309 - 01/15/13 12:29 PM

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Also, Orion advertises a 44 pound weight capacity but the finer print shows this as equally loaded with two scopes in alt/az mode. Not one scope, a little misleading in my opinion.

I do not believe that is correct.
I thought it was 44lbs main scope in alt az and 2 counterweights equaling 22lbs or a secondary scope of similar weight to balance.

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David Pavlich
Transmographied

Reged: 05/18/05

Loc: Mandeville, LA USA

Re: AZ EQ6 in the US? new

[Re: Lee Jay]
#5627135 - 01/16/13 10:18 PM

Well, I saw Jack's mount in person this evening. Looks like a well thought out piece of hardware. And it retains that marvelous Atlas hum. You can barely here it operate. I think this one is going to be a winner. If there was one thing I'd change, it would be the saddle. It's set up for a Losmandy D style dovetail, but it's fairly small. I would make it longer, like the Losmandy G11's saddle.

It looks like we may get a field test report from Jack. After this consarned (thanks, Rod

) stretch of cloudy/rainy weather, it looks like we may be in for about a week's worth of clear skies.

David

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Jack Huerkamp
Vendor - Waning Moon

Reged: 10/13/05

Loc: Louisiana

Re: AZ EQ6 in the US? new

[Re: opticsguy]
#5627599 - 01/17/13 08:30 AM

They advertise a 20Kg load for visual and a17Kg load for imaging while in EQ mode and there is a gentleman in Austria using an 18Kg 10" f/5 Newtonian in EQ mode with great success. It would be interesting to see if the mount could handle a 12" f/4. The moment arm would be similar although the weight would be slightly higher.

Jack Huerkamp

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Jack Huerkamp
Vendor - Waning Moon

Reged: 10/13/05

Loc: Louisiana

Re: AZ EQ6 in the US? new

[Re: David Pavlich]
#5627607 - 01/17/13 08:33 AM

Davis,

Hopefully I will be able to get the mount out this weekend. I have a contractor coming in to help with the observatory and other tasks around the house, but if time permits, I will do so.

Jack

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HowardK
professor emeritus

Reged: 10/20/10

Re: AZ EQ6 in the US? new

[Re: Jack Huerkamp]
#5628556 - 01/17/13 05:51 PM

Jack

Just received my az eq6

Looks great...very well engineered, great sounding motors, very cool

Looks much more capable than my MT Pro

Let us know how you go

Howard

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HowardK
professor emeritus

Reged: 10/20/10

Re: AZ EQ6 in the US? new

[Re: HowardK]
#5629437 - 01/18/13 07:42 AM

Hi

I have been using sky safari with sky fi perfectly with my CGE PRO mount.

I now have a SKY WATCHER AZ EQ6 and using the same cable from sky fi to the synscan hand controller as i use with the CGE PRO i cannot connect to the mount.

Do i need a specific cable for the SKY WATCHER....or should the Celestron one work?

Thanking you

Howard
Spain

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Jack Huerkamp
Vendor - Waning Moon

Reged: 10/13/05

Loc: Louisiana

Re: AZ EQ6 in the US? new

[Re: HowardK]
#5629476 - 01/18/13 08:35 AM

Howard,

You need the Atlas/SynScan cable for the SkyFi unit. The Celestron cable is not the same.

Also, the mount comes with a cable used for updating the firmware. I did not try it to see if it will work with the SKyFi.

Jack Huerkamp

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HowardK
professor emeritus

Reged: 10/20/10

Re: AZ EQ6 in the US? new

[Re: Jack Huerkamp]
#5630479 - 01/18/13 07:38 PM

Jack

i have it working now by using the serial cable from sky fi and the serial adapter that came with the az eq6 for firmware updates...but this is clumsy...

do you know of one cable that connects sky fi with synscan..?

carbon12 makes one for the cge pro but not it appears yet for synscan

Howard

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