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Old 13-03-2013, 08:27 PM
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I think SW designed it as a permanently mounted mounting. Once on the pier the no pressing shouldn't be an issue. Most mounts of that size designed for permanent mounting would probably have similar weak spots.

I was reading their bumpf a few weeks ago where they quoted tracking accuracy as 0.1164 arc sec. This isn't PE, it's the step size for the motors. I crunched a few numbers and worked out their gearing.

Worm Wheel has 435 teeth
step motor : 0.9 deg/step
step motors driven at 1/64th step micro stepping ratio
resulting 0.11637 arc sec per single step

Joe
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