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Originally Posted by The_bluester
Rather than specifically east heavy I tend to go slightly counterweight heavy, by enough to ensure that while it will swap sides on the worm and ring gear on the meridian flip it does apply enough pressure to keep them in mesh when the mount flips to be east of pier, pointing west. And I balance the Dec just a sniff rear heavy to try my best to keep that meshed too.
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I doubt if I will be doing meridian flips..as I have to stop staying up past 1 am, so data will be gathered from the East..I also hope to get the mounts to behave very well being confined to say 50 degrees movement or whatever I finally go for...plus at least with the 115 mm it is a tag too big for the little observatory so you need to watch it hitting the wall.
alex