Thank you Brendan for the post and thoughts, nothing has resulted from the Gemini group. The mount is a friends unit who has been writing now directly with I think René Görlich, and the issue seems to be specifically a Southern Hemisphere issue?? The northern hemisphere model was apparently done, but not a Southern Hemisphere model (realising there were beta testers here in Australia).
Having a Gemini V1 L4 I recommend the unit, but performance is clearly different for GOTOs. Anyway, it seems the majority of users are for astrophotography, so the pointing problem is not as much an issue considering laptops, planetarium software and pointing assistants are used to lock onto targets.
Steve
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