Thanks John and Johnathan for your replies. Very helpful.
Indeed that is something very nice to have the flexibility to add more counterweight in the future if one day fortunate enough to own a monster scope (I can only dream). But it gives me more reassurance that the counterweight bar wont easily strip off from its attachment on the RA section. I haven't seen a teardown of this section of the mount to see how they have reenforced the attachment but presuming the SW engineers have done their due diligence. Made me think about this after I saw this video by James Lamb on his AM5N
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDbtMD-ihJI&t=1s
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Originally Posted by JohnA
Pascal, i have really been enjoying it. It is brilliant in use, super quiet and slews nice and fast.
With the c9 loaded on it using the ZWO carbon tripod and pier it tracks brilliantly even without the counterweight. What i did notice though, its doing more work without the counteweight and balanced, that it does with. Notice it on battery use.
I like you was tossing up between the 2 and decided on the wave150i due to its slightly higher payload capacity without counterweights, and a video i watched on the AM5N slipping with a very heavy load, think it was with a c11 or 14, ill have to find the video again. The 150i seemed to handle it with ease. Though this video was from skywatcher, so take that with a grain of salt i suppose
The other thing i wasnt a fan of was the limit of only a 5kg counterweight on the AM5N. It may be enough, but i know when i use the 5 kg counterweight with my c9, its almost at the bottom of the rod, so a heavier payload would need more which ZWO do not recommend
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