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Old 11-08-2012, 01:37 PM
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Attaching a RoboFocus to a Tak FSQ85/106

Has anyone done this? RoboFocus sell a bracket they say is suitabe but without any detail about how it attaches.
I have an FSQ85EDX and a new RoboFocus that I want to marry up but am reluctant to mess too much with the Tak until I am sure I'm going the right way about it.
I've seen a couple of designs on the web in which a bracket is fabricated out of aluminium and bolted into the OTA where the finderscope bracket would normally be attached. That places it about 13mm roughly in front of the axis of the focuser knobs whereas attaching the supplied bracket by means of 2 of the 4 hex-heaed screws underneath the focuser mechanism would put verything in the right alignment but does involve messing with the focuser mounting (and probably tensioning) mechanisms and this is where I'm hesitating before going ahead.
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Old 11-08-2012, 02:08 PM
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Peter,

I followed the instructions here when I attached a Robofocuser to my FSQ-106ED:
http://www.astral-imaging.com/FSQ-106FocuserBracket.htm

I don't recall having any problems with it.

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