New iOptron mount with encoders?

[Poita]

This looks interesting:
https://www.ioptron.com/index.cfm?select=productdetails&phid=73d7ec24-86f2-48b4-a7b8-5f8fcfe34872
Looks like similar pricing to the EQ8.

[AndrewJ]

Gday Peter

There is a massive thread ( or two ) on this mount on CN.
It has shown some "quirks" that may or may not affect users depending on the arcsec/pixel you are working at.
ie there still appears to be a very fast sinusoidal ripple in the tracking
approx 2-4 arcsec pk-pk at a 5.4second frequency, and some very slow underlying tracking errors due to the tolerances in the encoder etching.

Also, some users are reporting problems at times when trying to guide, ( possibly due to clashing with the encoder, but dunno yet ).
The guiding problem may be overcome by finding some optimum guide settings, but so far, the ripple in RA has not been fixed.


Andrew