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Originally Posted by multiweb
What's the Losmandy Box? Is it like the Gemini box?
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Marc - kinda. The standard Losmandy "Digital Drive" runs steppers on RA & Dec axes, not servos like the Gemini does. They have a bit more torque than the standard Gemini servos and aren't as critical in the balance department when your power supply is a standard 12vDC source. It has no goto capability and has no fast slew. What it does do, is just work - without all the complexity of the Gemini (from which I purposely downgraded).
At home (or near AC power) you can run 14-16vDC from an AC-DC source, which allows you to gain more torque from your Gemini servos, and this gets over (in most cases) the dreaded Gemini "RA Stalled" problem I was getting on mine.