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Originally Posted by garymck
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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I did a belt drive conversion on an LXD75 a while back and also converted an older CG5 mount to belts. The thing to watch for is that with a straight belt drive system, you are probably going to be driving your worm in the opposite direction to normal so you'll have to change the Dec and RA ratios in your handpiece from a + to a - value. The other issue had to do with maintaining the gear ratios themselves - otherwise the Dec and RA ratios have to be recalculated down to about 6 decimal places and while I was able to get the LXD75 right I never did get the CG5 to work properly.
Peter