Thread: Preparing for the arrival of an AP mount - any tips?
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Old 19-02-2014, 05:06 PM
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See "Roland Christen's Sponsor Speech at AIC 2012" on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tuI...e_gdata_player
The sound is poor. Turn it up loud.

With the same motors as used on their big mumma 3600GTO El' Capitan, I'm all set!
During design and pre production, Roland wanted to see how much weigh he could put on the mount and still guide very accurately. Here's over 200 lbs (91kg) of equipment: 2 X 12" astrographs, a 7" refractor and a whole bunch of counter weights, whatever they could scrounge up. I count 11 of them!
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