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Originally Posted by philiphart
hmm.. the iOptron has a servo motor, whereas the Polarie has a stepper motor. unless they have some clever encoders inside, the polarie tracking rate is likely to be more accurate?
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The definition of a servo motor is a motor with positional feedback. This is more often than not an optical encoder.
If the motor has an encoder with as few as 50 lines/slits and a quadrature encoder it would be equivalent to a 200 steps/rev stepper, tho steppers are usually micro-stepped.
Probably plenty accurate for the sort of focal lengths used on these.