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Originally Posted by glenluceskies
To bojan and Bob regarding your comments indicating that the AN is not worth the money/too expensive.
It is clearly obvious that ATM'ers can produce similar results from other parts and accessories and produce equal results. And more power to you if you can acheive this. But I believe your comments are relative to your situation only, not mine or anyone elses.
I used to be the same, and would spend many hours tinking in my workshop creating devices for all manner of hobbies which could be commercially available. Bu t these days I am more than happy to purchase a product (like AN) where someone has done all the tinkering for me.
Perhaps your comments should read something like: "It is more economical for me produce my own device than to buy an AN". If you think you can cobble a system together and get it to work, well done! But many amateurs are more than happy to pay for the privelige of a new, tried and tested, out-of-the-box system which has local support if required.
You comments "my belief that it is not quite appropriate to make money on amateurs who can not do things themselves" is kind of strange, given that we all buy commercially produced items at some point in our hobby, whether that be telescopes, mounts, eyepieces etc.
Finally, given those great pictures from Gary of the manufacturing facility, and the years of R & D (and I assume lots of investment $, $1000 for an AN is not really that much to pay for all that hard work.
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Stephen,
I am not defending my views here now.. I am replying only because it seems that some of you did not read my comments properly, if at all.
I clearly stated that I was expressing my private opinions (and make no mistake, you are doing exactly the same thing - expressing your private opinion or at least I hope this is the case) of the product (and being a professional electronics engineer for over 35 years of experience in both R&D and manufacturing industry, I KNOW what I am talking about), and I sort of disqualified myself as DIY person in my very first post in this thread (now I feel this was actually too much)
I even admitted that it was a huge mistake to post here.. And clearly it was. However, I am capable of learning
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Looks like people like myself are regarded as rogue or strange on this forum, maybe even as lunatics, who - imagine - do not go along with the rest and do not take advantage of all those fantastic offers on the market? Or are we standing in a way of free advertising?