Yeah I have an 8" on there. That and an old 60mm refractor as a guidescope and a canon 400D. Total payload weight is around 13-14kg. That should be OK given the MAX rating is 25kg? Guiding in RA appears to be fine. I just have to sort out the large jumps in DEC when a pulse is given.
True about the wind. I went out the other night and the wind started to pick up and was averaging about 15km/hr, gusting up to about 25km/hr. This was a complete waste of time. Of course last night was completely calm but we had some high cloud. It was gone by about 11pm but I couldn't be bothered setting up.
Also recently got myself a light pollution filter (thanks Tandum). I also sorted out how to use the filter with my set up (see
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...94&postcount=9). Of course the moon doesn't want to play nice and the weather looks terrible anyway.