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Originally Posted by renormalised
That's what I've been thinking...by the sounds of the stories I've heard about the DEC and RA problems, it seems that they're probably getting the mounts manufactured in China and then doing the final assembly in Japan. Chinese manufacturing is a real hit and miss affair (more miss than hit) and the quality of goods coming from there varies greatly, even on individual production lines. Just like Japan was after WW2, and the old adage of "Made in Japan" meaning rubbish and take your chances.
Won't do Vixen's reputation any good at all.
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Carl there is a big difference in the quality of the internals in the vixen mounts over the equivilant synta versions. I have stripped both of mine and inspected them in great detail (as I have with the synta mounts I once owned). A dead give away is that all the bearings are made in Japan as well as the quality of machining on the worms and gears as well as the motors and circuit boards etc etc. Remember these mounts cost a lot more then the synta equivilant, they really just messed up with the software and design of the starbook and that only comes in to play if you want to do AP as its fine for visual. like Matt I am hoping the NexSXD will cure the last of the irregularities present in autoguiding but can still guide for 20+ minute exposures using the starbook on the SXD. It will be nice to have a guider port on the mount rather than on the controller where vixen thinks it should be. This should remove the lag time also as the input will be direct rather then passing through the starbook.
Mark