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I did think about this at one point but never actually tried it. A power box I made has a screen that shows current draw so I was going to use that but as I said, I never got around to it. I later questioned the need to do it. We balance our scopes marginally one side heavy anyway to reduce chatter in the worm drive so surely using gravitational balance is enough to get close then move the counter weights slightly in/out based on need. I guess it might have a better application on a newt where the focuser hasn’t been positioned downwards therefore causing a constant imbalance dependent on position. The current draw could be used to find the happy median maybe easier than gravitational balance ??? I’m not sure ??
Food for thought......
Ryan
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