
I dissagree , I had a Celestron C102HD on an eq3 for many years and it handlled it with ease ( a nice set up , too ) , and that was a f/10 , not a slightly shorter and lighter f/9 OTA like the ED102 here .
Yours might be a dud? there Cam? if it is strugling with a heaps shorter and lighter scope, even with a camera attached .
Makes me wonder .
This set up should be very good as a visual set up .
Brian.