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Paul_R
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Re: Intelliscope questions--2004 S&T review (LONG)
05/18/08 02:54 PM
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Who's stressed out about adding a counterweight?  No doubt if one received an imbalanced Intelliscope, it could be balanced with something magnetic attached to the top underside. But S & T's rubber banding a rock around the front end of their 8" Intelliscope was ridiculous!
OTOH, if one really had to add a brake, that would be another matter. Many of us are NOT DIYs, so that could loom as a major production! Plus, having to use one wouldn't fit everyone's observing style.
Tightening the altitude bearing is definitely NOT the best way to fix a *severely* out of balance scope! S & T did that and found it made the scope's motion jerky. All that's moot, however. Several people reported *earlier* in the thread that the Intelliscopes generally do NOT have a balance problem. And that one can readily find a good tension setting that provides both smooth motions AND good balance.
That was good to hear. I've puttered with out of balance scopes before and some can be a nuisance to get right. If you have decent DIY skills, it can be fun to tinker and solutions can be eventually found, but that's not for everyone.
In my experience, a well-balanced scope that stays put without the need for counterweights, or switching them or moving them around, or having to deploy a brake, is a simple joy. When I switched from a out of whack, runaway dob to a well engineered one, it was the difference between night and day! Or should I say, day and night?
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