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Are you having problems with Dec backlash or guiding in general ?
What’s the reasoning behind a “Hypertune” ?
I have 2 of these EQ6-R mounts and although they performed well for the first 12 months I had some Dec backlash issues on one of them
I decided to adjusted the worm gears and motor drive belts in both Dec and Ra and reduced the Dec backlash from 3000ms down to 900ms on average
Took about an hour or so on each mount
Now they guide as best as you can get with minimal backlash under my sky conditions
I use the PPEC algorithm in PHD2 ( the mounts are not PEC trained either )
Guiding numbers
Average seeing 0.60 to 0.70 total rms
Good seeing 0.45 to 0.60 total rms
Payload 9kg and 14kg respectively
Sometimes it’s best not to touch things if your mount is performing ok and your images reflect that !!
There was a company in Perth that hyper tuned Skywatcher mounts but I think they no longer perform that work anymore. I sent a general enquiry back in late 2021 and never got a reply.
Cheers
Martin
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