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Old 02-08-2019, 07:27 PM
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Atmos (Colin)
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They’re definitely a mount that you have to get used to but once you get used to them and their idiosyncrasies they’re fantastic!
For a while at first I would on some nights get random errors that left me with worries that stopped the mount but it would describe what the error was. Looking back on it now, I’m pretty sure that it was me not being anal enough about balance. During a dither command the amperage could get a little high for that small move and it would cause a error which resulted in a loss of location for the encoders.

This would happen on some nights and no others and it would happen at random times. What was likely happening is that some nights I was balancing better than others and some dither movements were more demanding than others. I now spend sometimes that every 5 minutes getting balance as good as possible and I haven’t had those issues for a long time.

Being a direct drive it isn’t as simple as a geared system but it is best in class. If I was to get a bigger mount I’d get another ASA so I think you’ve made a good choose there.
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