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Originally Posted by bojan
I also agree.
At first I was considering EQ6 as sufficient for my 10" F/5.6 Newt (mine is fully internal belt-modified, with OnStep controller), but that OTA (fiberglass) weights ~13kg... this is sort of within the claimed capacity of EQ6, but too close to upper limit to my taste (and I believe all those claims should be divided by at least 2 to avoid overloading).
I even made SerrurierTruss from rectangular 25mm Al tubing, but saved only ~1.5kg.. so I decided to abandon this approach, and go for bigger mount.
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Hi Bojan,
My scope weighs about the same & works fine with a modified EQ6.
Did you try a better counter weight shaft with your EQ6 as I did below?:
02-01-2017, 09:29 AM
https://www.flickr.com/photos/247194...in/photostream
cheers
Allan