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Old 29-08-2011, 09:27 PM
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hi,

could someone explain how the concept of adding relays to a mounts hand controller box for autoguiding works or how the older mount hand controllers perform manual guiding corrections

what i don't understand is that for autoguiding, the mount has to be tracking so the RA motor would be rotating at the predetermined tracking rate.
so how would the RA+ and RA- relays or buttons work for manual or autoguiding as RA is already on.
So does RA+ just increase the motor speed by a small increment?


I was looking at these instructions for the shoestring handcontroller modifications to add an st-4 port to a mount that doesnt have an st-4 port.
http://www.store.shoestringastronomy...odGuidance.pdf
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