From: "KirkusMcGurkus" <kirk@stenvall.net>

Date: October 6, 2008 8:51:16 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Custom drive ratios disrupt tracking?

Belt Drive hardware.

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "Milton Aupperle" <milton@...> wrote:

Hi Kirk;

Just so I'm crystal clear, is what your describing below for the LX75

with the Belt Drive hardware installed or the Original Gears installed?

Thanks in advance.

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "KirkusMcGurkus" <kirk@> wrote:

I'm pretty convinced now that my particular problem is NOT an issue

with AstroIIDC, but rather my mount/alignment.

I readjusted my worm gears, being as precise as I could. Then I set up

in the afternoon in a place that allowed me to train the drives using

a subject approximately 15 miles away. I also did my very best to get

an accurate polar alignment (I didn't do a drift align). I then chose

Vega to do a tracking test on. There's still an extreme amount of lag

in the Dec., so much so that the program errored 3 times while

calibrating it. However, the problem I originally described did not

appear. What I saw instead was tracking (or lack thereof) that I was

used to seeing when I had the gears on the mount rather than the

belts.