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Originally Posted by jenchris
Pardon me being a bit thick, I thought the idea of an equatorial platform was to cant the base to make it point to the pole - which would be something like 34 degrees off horizontal in Adelaide.
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No, not at all. What does vary (and I'm writing from memory here, as I did look into them at one point) is the arc it travels - I'm not sure I'm explaining it right. You build them to suit a particular latitude and they don't take well to travelling north or south of the original specs all that well, although someone was making adjustable ones at one point, sort of +/- 5 degrees. Have a look around at some DYI plans and they should explain how it's worked out.