Got the pic clear as a bell, thanks, Rich. Fairly clean installation, good job. I'm thinking of designing a mount with the altitude encoder, at least, mounted internally to the rocker, and not seen or exposed to inadvertant damage. We'll see where this leads. Thanks again for the excellent description and commentary! I carboned the list because it's good information, there are others who can benfit from your expereince. Chuck --- Richard Tenney <retenney@yahoo.com> wrote:
One more thing... while you can see what looks like an exposed circuit board on the top of the encoder, the guys at Astrosystems told me if any of the little connector pins were in the way to simply clip them off with some wire cutters; that is part of an alternate interface that isn't used in my case (the RJ-11 jack is in the end of that rectangular section). Hopefully the image isn't too confusing; the telescope is not set up at all; I simply set the control unit on top of the mirror box, sans cables or anything, and snapped the pic.
--- Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com> wrote:
Rich, do your encoders appear to be built robustly? Are they enclosed in their own case? Attached via a threaded collar around the shaft?
Do you think they'd sustain a good bump?
Do you find the resolution adequate? At what magnification (FOV) does the resolution become inadequate?
Thanks again
Chuck
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