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Originally Posted by bojan
The specs are actually unclear - 15kg at dovetail is not the same as 15kg away from dovetail (because you have piggybacked 10kg on tube weighting 5kg).
Basically, the less, and closer to mount, the better.
Personally, I wouldn't put much more than 10kg on EQ5, and more than 15kg on EQ6.
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I will back this up.
I had ~15kgs on my HEQ5 and only after rebuilding it was it able to "work".
Work well... it did not.
Threw old gear back onto it and got it under 10kg (around 8kg) and it worked well.
If you have the spare cash, bypass the HEQ5 and go with the NEQ6 (EQ6 Pro), especially if you have a large payload (newt).