WTS: Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ5 mount

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qqbin
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WTS: Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ5 mount

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For sale a relatively new Sky-watcher AZ-EQ5. Bought it from First Light Optics in December 2021, has only been deployed outside 3 times, mostly for testing.

It comes with a standard 1.75” tripod and 2x 3.5kg counterweight (still new in box, never open it as I have an existing tripod and counterweight). It also comes with all the standard accessories such as power cable, hand controller, Dec cable (i also made a spare dec cable), counterweight extension bar and counter-weight shaft mounting bracket for second telescope. It has a build-in USB port so you can connect it directly to the PC with USB cable, so you don’t need the handcontroller or the EQ-dir cable.

Full specification can be found here: https://www.firstlightoptics.com/equato ... mount.html

The mount has been hypertuned, as it comes with a huge backlash on Dec and RA axis but it is gone now, and the worm bearings has been upgraded to high-end SKF bearings. The performance is good, in a good night of testing, it can reach 0.6 arcsec of RMS error with 9kg payload. It also have dual encoder so it will remember the position even when you release the clutch and reposition the mount manually, a good feature that I find useful for visual.

Price is firm at SGD 2,000. You’ll save around $500 for shipping and GST, plus all the hours put to hyper-tune the mount. I am selling this as I got myself another mount with bigger payload thus won’t see myself using this often.

Whatsapp me at Eight One Eight Eight 4500 for faster response.

Ps: if you want to use this in Singapore, you will need to get an extension pier so the counterweight won’t hit the tripod leg. Something like this: https://www.firstlightoptics.com/sky-wa ... -tube.html

Ps again: I also have a brand new ADM vixen/losmandy dual-sadle with AZ-EQ5 puck, which I can sell for SGD200.
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Re: WTS: Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ5 mount

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