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I would love a second larger capacity mount. My Orion AZEQ6 clone is starting to show it's age, it has probably done more work than most, at the very least it needs a full stripdown and clean and setting up from scratch.
I have that and an iOptron CEM70G, at the moment the biggest thing that would make me lean towards buying another CEM70 (Probably not a G) is the ease of passing cables down through the mount. My ASI2600 cameras appear not to work well on a USB hub (And I have read similar on the net about other peoples experiences) so the ability to easily pass a dedicated cable through the middle of the mount is a real selling point. It must be possible on the EQ8R given they have hard stops inside the mount to limit pointing and they have a built in hub on the puck, but I don't know how easy it is to get a user cable through the middle.
On the plus side for the EQ8R, having used both I think EQMOD is more mature and easier to use than the iOptron software, and presents extra options for setting up mount limits etc.
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