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I have an HEQ5 and have loaded a 7KG North Group Carbon Fibre ED 127 and a 3.5 KG North Group ED 80 together with a Cannon DSLR, guide camera and horizontal mounting bar adding about another 2.5 Kg for a total load weight of 13 KG. I conterbalanced this with 10KG. So this represents an all up weight of 23 kg.
Suprisingly it is easy to balance and guides perfectly. I am only a beginner imager but have had no problems doing 25 three minute exposures of different objects.
One thing I have noticed is that if I touch the mount it takes about 5 seconds to stop vibrating. My gut feeling is that this maybe due to the fact that the counter weight rod is fully extended with 10KG on the end.
There doesn't appear to be a definitive answer to this question. Most of of the sales literature states an all up weight of 13kgs that includes counter weights. So I am running 10KG over the stated maximum.
I purchased the HEQ5 PRO in November 2008 and never used it until this year. Back then it came standard with 10KG of counter weights. Now it comes standard with 5 KG of counter weight.
Hope this helps.
Regards Rob
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