Tak Meridian mounts

[beren]

Something more strange then Takahashi's new colour scheme is the new Meridian mount adaptations .....

http://www.takahashijapan.com/ct-news/news_topics/news_180205_em-meridian.html

EM-11,EM-200, EM-400 covered, but no polar scope and reduces capacity to half of the mounts normal ability at the same price point .

By chance came across this pic {attached} of a Jap amatuer adapting a EM-400 to do the same thing a day ago and saw this on Taks website today. Must be a demand for it in Japan.

[LewisM]

I can kind of understand it (oh how frustrating meridian flips are when the mount STOPS instead of auto-flipping), but I can see bad harmonics building there - no wonder the capacity is halved.

[Octane]

Imagine you left it unattended for a long period of time. Twisty tied cables!

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[LewisM]

I'm not fond of my mount going 135° let alone potentially full circle

[AstroApprentice]

This design looks more robust:
http://www.kyoei-osaka.jp/SHOP/takahashi-em400mrd.html