Repairing the equatorial platform
Today, the replacement motor for my Tom Osypowski equatorial platform arrived today. It was an easy fix to remove the old (broken) motor, and install the new one, once I could find the correct (American) screwdrivers. After a small test, everything seems to work fine again.
I will install the 35 cm Dobsonian on the equatorial platform, but the groundboard is not large enough to fit on the platform, so I need to do some changes first... I will also add digital setting circles (encoders) to be able to use the Argo Navis on the 35cm Dobsonian.
The 18'' Obsession will be updated with a ServoCAT. This will update the telescope to a full goto system. Because the equatorial platform is removed from the Obsession, the height of the telescope decreased with 30cm, which makes a huge difference on such a large telescope.
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| The replacement motor for the equatorial platform. |
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