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Originally Posted by Brundah1
Joshua,
Depending on which scopes you have, I can highly recommend the Moonlites with their own HR stepper motors and mini-controller.
I have the 2.5 inch CFL on my 127EDT and the 2 inch CS Tall focuser on both C8 and C11. That's just one CS focuser with two lower flanges that stay on the respective scopes.
For C9HD, C11, C14, some RCs and large refractors, the 2.5 inch focusers have an option of 68mm threaded Drawtubes and various adapters - I chose this option and its highly recommended. You may need some custom threaded adapters, depending on your image train.
The Moonlite Mini Controller has no DRO (Digital Read Out) or stand alone manual focusing, but its half the price of the Moonlite DRO stand alone controller.
Both controllers are very well made and come with a USB RS-232 adapter that works. Moonlite controllers work with Robofocus and most other focus software - see the Moonlite website for details.
Besides Ron Newman's service & support is Platinum Standard 
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I second this. This is the set up for my refractor and is very smooth in operation. It can run with the Robofocus unit and in CCDSoft with @focus or MaxIm, Focusmax as well as with CCDAutopilot, I think.
If you want to use Focusmax for automated focussing runs, you may need to invest in Pinpoint full edition so you can aquire the right magnitude stars for filter changes etc.
There is a few solutions out there, you just need to decide which one you want to go with. My set up cost around AU$1200.00 delivered with the focuser and the Robofocus unit, which gave me a spare motor to put onto another scope if I want to.