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[alanajones]

Hopefully the title explains it.

 

A pre-owned EM-200 Temma 2 has come up for sale near-ish to us and I am thinking the higher capacity would be useful. It is the head, weights, etc, only, does not come with the tripod.

 

It is a fair distance away from us and I don't really want to have to make the journey to check it out until I am sure I have the below confirmed.

 

I currently have an EM-11 head with a Tak SE tripod. The Tak adverts say the SE tripod is capable of handling the capacity of an EM-11 and EM-200, so that's the tripod legs sorted.

 

The snag is the adaptor plate/casting which goes on top of the legs to attach the tripod to the head.

 

I would prefer to keep using my existing EM-11 adapter because:

i) I dont want to have to buy an EM-200 adaptor if I don't need to (if any stock even exists now), and

ii) The EM-11 adaptor can be rotated. It allows me to continue to use the mount as a pseudo alt-az mount (for manual ISS tracking etc). Tak's EM200 tripod adapter does not rotate (their EM-200 pier adaptor does).

 

Having looked at photos of the bottom of an EM-200 head with a ruler next to it and compared it with the sizing of my EM-11 base I am pretty sure the EM-200 and EM-11 bases have the same dimensions, so both should in theory be usable on the EM-11 adaptor, but just wanted to check if any one has owned both and could confirm it.

 

Many thanks.

Edited by alanajones, 12 March 2024 - 02:43 AM.

[Dwight J]

I use the EM 200 on an EQ6 tripod I had. Since the EQ6 is a clone of the Tak mount the mount fits perfectly.  

[payner]

Hopefully the title explains it.

 

A pre-owned EM-200 Temma 2 has come up for sale near-ish to us and I am thinking the higher capacity would be useful. It is the head, weights, etc, only, does not come with the tripod.

 

It is a fair distance away from us and I don't really want to have to make the journey to check it out until I am sure I have the below confirmed.

 

I currently have an EM-11 head with a Tak SE tripod. The Tak adverts say the SE tripod is capable of handling the capacity of an EM-11 and EM-200, so that's the tripod legs sorted.

 

The snag is the adaptor plate/casting which goes on top of the legs to attach the tripod to the head.

 

I would prefer to keep using my existing EM-11 adapter because:

i) I dont want to have to buy an EM-200 adaptor if I don't need to (if any stock even exists now), and

ii) The EM-11 adaptor can be rotated. It allows me to continue to use the mount as a pseudo alt-az mount (for manual ISS tracking etc). Tak's EM200 tripod adapter does not rotate (their EM-200 pier adaptor does).

 

Having looked at photos of the bottom of an EM-200 head with a ruler next to it and compared it with the sizing of my EM-11 base I am pretty sure the EM-200 and EM-11 bases have the same dimensions, so both should in theory be usable on the EM-11 adaptor, but just wanted to check if any one has owned both and could confirm it.

 

Many thanks.

I use an EM-11 with an EM-200 interchangeable on both the metal SE and wood tripod for the EM11/200.  You'll have no problem.

[alanajones]

Many thanks for all the feedback, great to hear its possible.

[alanajones]

I have it now, hurray. Just testing it out with INDI and CCDCiel/Cartes Du Ciel at the moment and all looks good so far.

Definitely fits on the EM-11 tripod and the rotating adaptor with no issues at all (so can still use it as alt-az when needed for ISS chasing)

The mount head base overhangs the tripod adaptor a little bit (whereas the EM-11 didn't) but makes no difference.

Edited by alanajones, 28 March 2024 - 06:20 PM.