Alex,
yes you can belt drive the eq6 and keep the hand controller or eqmod. The key was to source a 47 tooth pulley to repalce the 47 tooth gear on the worm. It has taken me 3 years to find one!!!! I am currently awaiting delivery from the UK of a 12 tooth pulley, a 47 tooth pulley and a matching belt to fit to my eq6. Hopefully should be here in the next week or so. I will post when it has been converted and the results are in. As to the Bartels, I regard it as a fabulous sytem, and if I still had an observatory I would use it in an instant. The keboard interface is super quick once you know the shortcuts.
cheers
Gary
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Originally Posted by AlexN
There you go!!
Well, I'm still very interested. Although, I wonder.. Can you belt drive the mount whilst keeping the synscan control? setup, or using EQMOD... The bartel system seems a little archaic to me, even if it is very powerful, the interface reminds me too much of excel in MSDOS...  |