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Hello Chad I am in process to do the same conversion on a CGE mount that I got..... Can you tell me what steppers and reduction gear you are using? many thanks in advance.

Do those gearboxes that direct couple to the stepper motors, have much backlash? I only ask, as i am about to build a large mount, and i already have 2 of those gearboxes, with a 100:1 ratio. If they are ok to use with onstep, then i will use them. Subscribed, and going to watch the previous 7 videos. Thanks.

very good. it's a pity that we can't buy this in Russia(

Great work Chad the mount sounds sweet

Excelente trabajo.

Great job Chad !!!!!

Места там очень мало (

Thank you <3

Chad. is there any chance you will make a custom bracket for cge Pro ?

congrats !!!

Did you have any kind of problems with phd2 and Onstep? It seems the calibration take a looking time and it goes to error 😅 did you have any tutorial about?

How do you change the draw length?

@ChadGrays ... To shorten a long story ... Celestron CGEM-5 and parts are now Obsolete and unavailable... Motor control boards are failing.... this is a perfect solution to make a 65 pound paper weight functional again.... It's 1 year later from your videos on this and I'm wondering if you finished your tinkering with this using Onstep and if you're willing to share your solution with CGEM-5 paperweight owners?

Good job, reduced the play to a minimum on mine. Which GT2 did you use?

Whe can sell our old motors to celestron ,so they have some spare parts ahahha🤣

Interesting you say about the Allen wrenches stripping out the ones I use I use are of decent quality but one of the grub screws rounded off inside the gear housing on my CGE pro so I had no choice but to drill it out. It wasn't a big deal as it's never ever going back to being standard but could be worth mentioning.

I may be a little stupid and ignorant, but in my opinion, what you people who do tutorials are doing wrong is the fact that there is no equal, you are convinced that everyone already has all the basics on these products, but in this way, you only send people in confusion. I've been trying to get onstep to work for 2 weeks, I've watched a thousand tutorials, and I had to reinstall windows due to the mess you made me make. I think that, thanks to you, I will give up astronomy.

Thank you for this, I have trying with a mobile app and getting nowhere. Followed your video , it made everything easy. Had my first night imaging thanks to you

Help pls when i connect onstep to ascom my i saw my data ia 00:00 how to fix it

What board did you use and if this is Terrans like product? Thanks

thats what i'm searching for.. do you have stl files for me?

Fantastic video, just set up onstep on my EQ-5 mount built it all running. Just needed to connect it brilliant video. Thank you so much.

wish it had cone error correction

Great job Chad I've used helicoils in the past for repairs & often given great results, fortunately touch wood my CGE pro threads are good so should be ok for a good few years.

All I can say is the CGE pro kit you sell the motors have more than enough torque to slew the RASA 11 around, the first light I finally got to use it I hadn't balanced it properly but still managed .27 guiding. Now the balancing has been improved I'm getting anything between .16 to .08 now. I haven't tried my 10" Newtonian on it yet but if what I'm getting is anything to go by I'm sure it will cope easily.

Hi mate. In your calculation you have forgot to account for the wight of the steel rod, which is probably much heavier, than your washers were. Since the rod is heavier than the washers, it will impact the resulting torque more than the washers are, so the answer will be way off. Approach is correct though.

If you are using a belt instead of a worm, are you not just trading backlash for elasticity of the belt? The belt makes sense before a worm, where there is no point of oscillatory coupling adding random impulses through the elasticity. How does the belt help in this instance? Is the elasticity really better than the backlash in a worm gear? Does the worm gear not have the added benefit of balancing east heavy? Would a worm with a spring tensioner not be better than both of these options?

Thank you very much. I'm looking at an onstep-based harmonic mount called UMI-17 from China

how’d the backlash turn out for this design? i can’t seem to find a design with low backlash for my diy eq mount 😂

Well done! I think i would of went for a Li-Ion 18650 cell or 2. They are safer, more capacity and available everywhere. It would make the case 18mm plus the plastic thickness. Or use the 14500 (AA size) Li-Ion cells. Thanks for sharing.

Me again Chad is it possible you can do a video of how I get ASCOM hub I’ve down loaded on pc but all I get is this ASCOM diagnostic box turns up

Nice video, Chad! PHD2 was giving me a lot of trouble last night and I decided to give Ekos guider a try. My guiding was not great, although I was imaging a target very low above horizon. I wonder if you are still using Ekos guider and if there are any gotchas you learned since you published this video?

Chad I’ve just got a OnStep kit for my vixen gp I’ve connected like you said I got on screen my telescope but when I try to slew it dose nothing

Hi Chad I just thought I'd say thanks for building this kit as for one I don't have the no how especially with building up a system of my own. I've got it all running in the observatory now with NINA, PHD, ASCOM & done some guided imaging with readings of 0.3 to 0.1 Arcseconds which I'm over the Moon about as it's handling the RASA 11 with ease now unlike the Skywatcher mount which was maxed out. I'm so glad I took the plunge & bought one now so here's to many more years of use out of the mount now. Thanks & clear skies!!

I've finally put my CGE Pro Onstep in the observatory today so hopefully I'll get to use it soon, took me a bit of a while to get it running one was due to a a dead USB lead & other on user error but now I'm able to operate via NINA remotely from home. Thanks again for this kit as I've now got a mount that can carry some weight. Hopefully I'll get a first light soon thanks again & clear skies!!

Hi Chad, Very cool! I was wondering about a CGE, not a pro just a CGE. I have had one for years. Went into storage for a few years. But when I finally got it back out it stopped working correctly. Can this kit you describe here be retrofitted to my CGE? Thanks in advance for taking the time to read my comment and respond. Regards, John

Hola amigo Tengo una pregunta, la hora local del device hub no es la misma que la de tu ordenador como cambio eso, lo he podido hacer en el mando, pero en device hub no, ademas creo que si estan mal alineadas las horas no apuntara correctamente mi telescopio, como puedo cambiar la hora en device hub? Saludos desde chile.

Nice. Thanks

Hi Chad, thanks for sharing this. I’m doing some research to build a belt driven gearbox. Would you be willing to share your file(s) or can you recommend some other resources from where you got your inspiration? Thank you. Keep up the great work.

Oustanding. I own a cge pro al well and im in love with the mount. What does this set cost and is it compatible with astrosoftware like stellarium, nina, eq-mod?

Thanks Chad big help.

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Hey chad,Quastion about the meridian flip,i set the auto on,but it did not flip. I left the option meridian flip,pause at home off. Should i do that one also on ? And what does it do after it paused at Home? Will it continue to go to the target ,or do i have to d oit myself ? Because of the longer dark nights now,i start in the north early,so the south meridian is around 1 o clock in the night. Now it just stops due to the limit and disconect. greetings John. p.s i have more tiem,will fix my videos . 😎

I dont suppose you could do q video about the arduino setup part for this could you please ?? I'm so confused on how to sort it...I have the telescope moving about with onstep and the hand controller, but I now wanted to put the webserver on .....

Hey Chad,my CGE PRO conversion is still doing great. GOTO is pinpoint every time. guiding is awesome. im very busy imaging the last time,ill try to finish the video i made with the conversion. on the onstep io page is also a great manual for the smart handcontroller. greetings John

This looks pretty promising, Chad! What's the payload capacity like? I hope you succeed 🤩

so ..does it run already ? p.s. good bbq set in the back haha.. good weekend.