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Old 10-01-2009, 08:35 PM
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The gliderol motors are light duty, and the have a plastic body that tends to flex under load and then you get gear slippage. The control boards can be a little sensitive too. One thing that is very handy about the gliderol control board is they have a seperate open, close, and rotation command (1 push for open, close,stop.), most operators have only the rotation command. The seperate open and close commands are very desirable for observatory control.

I guess they would be suitable for a very small roof, but not the size of ten peaks observatory.

That said there are worse motors out there.... but there are better also.
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