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Old 01-06-2018, 04:05 PM
Wavytone
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The text on that page is Korean, not Chinese.

There’s another range of mounts with harmonic drives made in Korea as well - by Rainbow Astro, costing roughly AU$11k if you factor in GST.

This one looks like it uses the same harmonic drive components as the Rainbow unit - the specs are very similar.

I’ve seen harmonic drives used on machinery and indeed they do have zero backlash, extremely high torque and stiffness. If money was no object sure I’d buy one.

There was a video taken at the 2017 eclipse using one of the Rainbow mounts where the camera traces a neat circle around the suns perimeter mid-eclipse... very smooth, no backlash. https://vimeo.com/231484786
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