[one thQUOTE="FaT Air, post: 3700582, member: 151853"]Quick, and dirty, way of reducing your focal length. Not by much, only a very little.We require pictures of the finished work (we LOVE pictures)
Angles, and where to measure them. Take a look at a page I put on the web.
http://www.wisegise.net/BUD/1713/index.html
I don't know about a 'modified polar mount' but there is a 'modified declination' angle that produces better tracking at the ends of the arc. No re-work required of the polar mount.[/QUOTE]
This is really cool. And what is really cool about it is the fact that I am coincidentally using THAT VERY CHART .No wonder things clicked good when I was setting up. Trying to learn all this initially has been quite overwhelming, and trying to establish a good source of information, and I have really been fortunate in this quest to have found some great sources, and spend more time learning and not much time looking for info. at trying to find up to date Sat info was an interesting venture until the ASC1.
It is one that apparently SkyVision had years ago. CKD-8.5. Can you see what type of mount it is. From the directions in the documentation, It said that the mount can be a Polar Mount, or a H-H mount, but I've also heard "Modified Polar Mount" also, but I'm not that versed in these yet, so I'm not sure. I don't know if you can tell, but I can take other pics if needed. I think I have set it the way the modified is to be setup, and it seems to be working. I have set the top surface of the mount to my Latitude, and I set my elevation to the center of the arc (for me, it is 93.1). Then I set my declination accordingly, and I seem to be pretty good, but I will have an ASC1 by next week, and will have the sat info already programmed into it, so I will be able to see if I'm set straight on or not. And I've got an AMIKO MiniHD SE coming soon also, so things will be better once we get better equipment to work with, and an up to date database. My ViewSat came to me obsolete, but I didn't have the Forum to know what not to get. But I'm learning more every day. Thanks for the shoutout, and Take Care... T
I figured that while I am in a holding pattern, I thought I would make productive use of this time while I'm learning the operations of the ASC1, and soon to come, an AMIKO MiniHD SE. But I went ahead and did some much needed work on the Actuator. It is a QARL 3024+, and it had been left for quite awhile with it's cap put on backwards, and you can see by the pic that it had to be quite a long time. Although when I started having mover problems, I immediately tested the connections and all are still working, but from the time I brought it home, I had already put this on the top of the list. So I've added some pics to let ya see how it went. There is the basic before and after process. It's all I know what to do with it,until I look it up in the forum. I just started with what I know I can do , and research the rest of the procedure before I button it up. (With the cap on correctly). I am going to get it a grease gun with the lithium grease tomorrow. I cleaned out the grease zirt nipple, and ready for that, so that's where I am. Getting the old girl a "Makeover" is going to make her happy to play with her new friends soon, and I want to get it right. But I believe in my last post, I said that I used my latitude for the top of the mast, but I believe I measured that angle from the part of the mast directly behind the dish's center section , and then my declination to the dish center section. It took me just a bit to figure out which is which, and not get turned around, but I'll give it another go over just before we get ready to go. Thanks again, and check out my sloppy, but effective facelift on the actuator.. T
