Leigh, Whatever else is going on, you might want to pre-emptively switch that unpowered USB hub out for a powered one... Lots of tales of woe over on CloudyNights from folks who experienced various fo

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Joseph, Re: The Clutch... If you scroll down the stardeck observatory link, you'll see some rather decent exploded photos of an LXD75, our EXOS2's progenitor. Our mounts have bearings on all axes and

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Joseph, Play (backlash...) in the gears? Some is indeed normal. Gears, shafts, bearings...all have tolerances. And the spacing between the ring and worm? It's fixed. No play in that. So the best you c

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Joseph, This hobby is an endless source of problem-solving opportunities :-) Just tossing some things out as grist for your mill... If you tell me that your mount axes wiggle, well, you may need some

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Rix, This was specifically about what you should expect when turning the gears by hand, during adjustment - and that illustrating one of the reasons why balance is important during a session (whether

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Rix, Assuming that you have a decent gear mesh, do not be surprised if the gears are quiet and smooth when LIFTING weight as you turn by hand, yet chatter when LOWERING it. When lowering, the worm is

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Rix, Can't speak to your iExos-100 problem specifically (cos' I don't have one), but as to WD-40 as a gear lube... No..no..no.... It's good for lots of things (just like duct tape), but a grease subst

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That's gorgeous, Vince!

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James, You didn't describe your hub, but your scenario reminds me of CloudyNights posts I've seen, where OP's using an unpowered hub have periodic camera drops. The usual prescription is to switch to

Guys, All I've seen of the iExos-100 is Alex's video and a few pix, but as far as I can tell, the gear adjustment concept will be the same as the EXOS2. Yes, ring gear vs wheel gear and all that, but

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Manuel, The thing about guiding is that the real measure is 'round stars', despite what the graphs say. The graphs are a useful diagnostic tool when the stars are not round, but they're not an end in

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Manuel, Your video is a time lapse of 30-45s exposures, taken over 2 or 3 hours? Well, you might be seeing the mount's ~600 second periodic error - that would be the side-to-side, and the drift down m

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How many times did you click on 'connect'? Some users (like me) need about three tries before it catches. Not a consistent problem. Some users have it, some don't. My WAG (because reasons) is that it'

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Paul, You're most welcome ! Glad it got sorted out. :-) - Bob

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Jerry, Any update on power consumption? - Bob

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Paul, Out of curiosity, when you tested indoors vs. outdoors, did you change from mains power to battery? I believe Win10 has power management settings for the wifi adapter, and I seem to recall that

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James, Yup. That cable uses a Prolific chipset, not FTDI. Unless something changed (Wes? Jerry?), Prolific's were specifically not recommended for this application, in more than one post. - Bob

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James, One small checkbox item: Jerry said: "the PMC-Eight in Serial Mode with a Serial DB9 to USB FTDI chip adapter cable" And you said: "I have both a serial (DB9) cable and a serial (ST4) cable I c

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Paul, If the DEC axis stays put when the clutch is on, then the clutch isn't slipping and neither is the mesh between the worm and ring gears. If you open the belt cover and the belt is moving, but th

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+1 on 'heavy'. Just as a science project, I bought my scope a 2", 2x ED barlow a while ago. I mostly wanted to check out how well my guiding held up at longer focal lengths (perhaps with a future scop

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