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Originally Posted by renormalised
I didn't expect the Syntas to be upto scratch compared to the Vixen mounts. What caused me some concern was reading about some of the mechanical problems some Vixen owners had faced with their mounts and the shoddy deal they got off the Vixen customer service.
It seems the AXD also uses its version of the starbook to autoguide as well. Whether it's any better than the previous versions of the controller, I don't know as I've not seen any objective reviews done on the system, yet. It would be interesting to see if Vixen have solved their problems for their bigger mounts.
I'll be interested to see how the NexSXD goes in your mounts and how performs. Reason why is I'd like to grab a Vixen AX103S refractor in the future sometime, and I wouldn't mind mating it with a Vixen mount, considering their normal build quality and reliability. Although, if need be I'd get an EQ6...cheaper, I suppose  |
Carl you would have to be stark starring mad to consider the AXD mount even with the new starbook. These mounts will cost over 10K for a 31kg payload. The reason why you have not seen any pics etc is because no one is mad enough to buy one especially when vixen will not release PE etc. It was built to take on the AP Mach 1 but good luck to them with that one. The PMX costs around the same in oz with a stated PE, 41kg load capacity and a whole lot more going for it then the AXD. The biggest mistake vixen made was to phase out the atlux which had the same load capacity as the AXD, a stated PE of +/-5 (+/- 2 with PEC) and a cost of 6K. The SXD would make a good match with the AX103 plus camera/FW etc etc and is very light and small so easy to cart off to a dark site.
Mark