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Jeremy,
Thanks, you obviously have an older unit
I’ve just watched a podcast from Skywatcher USA on the new EQ8-R mount and the USB3 hub ports are only passive not active ( just short USB3.0 cable between ports ) and unpowered.
So if you run USB3 cable from mount ports to a laptop say a few metres away , you still need an active USB3 cable to carry full USB3 bandwidth from laptop to equipment on the mount
I think the original problem with the EQ8-R was that the USB3 ports were not fully USB3 compliant so they only worked with USB2
When I eventually order and receive my mount , I’m going to make sure I have a plethora of USB3 active cables , powered hubs etc... so I’m not second guessing
Cheers
Martin
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