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Old 28-08-2015, 09:21 PM
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Originally Posted by AlexN View Post
The gso rc's seem great to me and given that you are willing to spend a little extra on upgrading a few things that should be standard......
I find it interesting they decided to made their 16's with a Serrurier truss.

A great concept, but sadly applied with no understanding.

Serrurier truss's assume the loads are constant on the secondary and primary, and are designed to sag equally along the long secondary arm, and short primary arm, thus keeping the optics parallel.

So...let's mention the elephant in the room... or in this case, a heavy camera off the primary mirror end (as you do with big RC's....)

We can now guarantee the optics will no longer be parallel.

I suppose you could always hang a counterweight off the secondary
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