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Welcome to the bleeding edge - Although it's a familiar place for us as we both had the first ever EQ8's!
The 2.5mm plugs are a pain, but adaptors from Jaycar allowed me to use my normal cabling and gradually I will re solder some existing cables to be a little neater. I don't have any serious power drains with my camera but still run one lead to the camera, the other to the ASIAir, but from a previous set up I have run the camera Power from the Air too.
The synscan controller is a good idea, the wireless phone app is a great way to drive the scope into the pier by accident and it hits pretty hard - you can do the same with the hand controller, but it is easier to recover from. The ASIAir is really easy to set up, plug it into the cradle USB and Jumper the USB on the mount so that the ASIAir controls and guides through it, no need for the ST4 cable. The whole thing is nice and neat with no cables loose from the scope at all now as per picture.
Not that I've seen much sky since it arrived - I still need to polar align it properly and really test out guiding, I may have a go later.
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