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Depends on how you are setting up a Floyd rose Trem. If you can handle that without issue, I would get this one. It's pretty good. Pickup are OK, and the fine tuners on this bridge need to be oiled. But otherwise it's great. The LP is a totally different animal. I wouldn't turn away from either.

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Hello, at 9:45 of the video i discuss the azimuth adjuster. It simply attaches to the tripod using a single 8mm bolt into an existing hole on the tripod. The two side bolts with wing nuts on them are rotated to turn the mount head left or right, it works very precisely, in a manner similar to other azimuth adjusters on other mounts. No disassembly or modification of the mount is required, and it can be removed at any time. Frankly it just works. I also have created several other modifications for this mount that you can find on thingiverse if you search for IEXOS. They include Ipolar/Polemaster mounts to make polar alignment a breeze, A counterweight mount to use inexpensive readily available barbell plates from walmart, and a USB Support to help keep the USB cable from flexing the port. I no longer use the laser components shown in the video, just the azimuth adjuster, the Ipolar mount, counterweight mount and the USB cable support. Clear skies.

Hello, it is an M8 bolt. Thanks.

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Hello, Yes, this will work with an IPolar device, when used with an IPolar adapter. I have produced an IPolar adapter that works with my IEXOS-100 PoleMaster Mount. If you provide your email address i can make them for you and send you an invoice.

@@alexzarvis6949 did you get my email

@@comm2005 I did not get an email from you? I thought you would put it here in the chat.

@@comm2005 I sent you an email to the address you listed, keep an eye out for it.

@@alexzarvis6949 got it.

Hello, in the case of the IEXOS-100 mount an 'FTDI' USB-Serial chip is built in, so all that is physically needed is a standard quality USB A male to USB mini male cable. Which it sounds like you have. Depending on when you bought your mount, you may be encountering the 'Bit Flip' problem. If you read my notes for this video, i mention the need to 'flip the DTR' to make it work. I wrote: 'you must install and run FT_Prog and then change/invert the DTR of the FTDI chipset.' so you download FT_Prog (google it)...plug in the mount via the cable to your PC. connect it through the FT_Prog program and search for the DTR (it's in there in the menus), then invert it. Save and the mount should then be viewable by other applications. Anyway, it's been a while, but that is what i did. This link has much more detail: espmc-eight.groups.io/g/MOUNTS/topic/getting_stellarmate_to_wok_on/32572483 good luck to you.

@@alexzarvis6949 thx a lot, it worked!! needed to patch the firmware first, then use FT_prog and then it all finaly made click and just worked

@@FredMF Great news, glad to hear that, cheers!

Hello, the sandwiched weight is a 2.5lb weight. so not much additional weight was needed. I have used the IEXOS-100 in many different configs at this point, and i find it handles the weight of larger refractors pretty well, up to about 110mm or so. Plus guiding accessories and other things. It's been a great little mount. This mount will work very well as long as you take the time to balance everything. and leave a slight telescope side heavy bias to help with the dec backlash.

@@alexzarvis6949 besides your 3D parts, are you using the stock iExos 100? Did you upgrade the tripod?

@@NMagturo I actually do use the stock tripod. I love how light and portable it is. Really good balance means i don't feel plagued by the small mount's bit of flexure. I upgraded to a polemaster to make polar aligning even easier, and designed a polemaster mount for this scope as well. Find it here: ruclips.net/video/2Jrp-Kv7I1M/видео.html Between that and the azimuth adjuster, as well as printing my own bahtinov masks, and other do dads, i have a good time with this rig. However, i have a bunch of other mounts and scopes and rigs, so they also get a lot of my attention, I regularly design and print stuff for them as well.

Hello, guiding is crucial for good astrophotos on most mounts including the IEXOS100. However, this device is for achieving an accurate polar alignment to make the mount track as precisely as possible. Once you are properly polar aligned you can guide using a separate guide scope and camera piggybacked to your imaging scope using software like PHD2. This polemaster mount makes mounting the polemaster device a breeze. The little nub fits snugly into the sight tube hole on the mount. Those people that have their own 3D printers can print the model themselves. You can also have the model made for you by some 3rd party printing services. And I have also made a few for folks that have requested it. If you want to purchase one from me, leave a comment with your email address and i will respond with details. Thanks.

This is in the Hinsdale, Peru, Worthington, MA. region.

@@alexzarvis6949 Me and my father used to ride up that way all the time. We used to go to a bar called Plainfield Billa or something starting out at Greylock I think. My father and I cut the Cheshire Harbor Trail that goes up To the Greylock summit from the bottom in like 1974 or something. I wonder if that trail is still being used today. Cut it with chainsaws and shit during the summer in the 70’s

That's great to hear. I hope it helps to get the most out of this cool little mount. Thanks!

Thanks Mike...check out the most recent ones i posted on my channel. And don't forget to subscribe!

Thanks Jack, I took a look at yours as well...great stuff. I envy the seeing you guys had for sure. I struggled with clouds and bad transparency through it all, not to mention the -8 degree temps. But i'll take it since it wasn't even supposed to clear up and it did. To answer your question, I was not guiding, although consistently i find both my EQ-6 (Atlas) and my EQ-5 to both be stellar performers when it comes to low periodic error. I too was tracking at a lunar rate and found I was adjusting the moon slightly up and right throughout the night...but not much beyond that. The mount was drift polar aligned 9 years ago...and i only occasionally do a two or three star alignment whenever i bump into it...lol. Keep up the great work you do buddy!!

Thank you!!

Thanks Dan...we share so many interests, you know what they say, "great minds" ....;)

Thanks Dan. Watching it again now, i can't believe how sloppy I was...lol. Oh well, part of posting these is letting go, right my friend.

I like the "wear" on your guitar from your right hand

i have the same wear from my pinky

Thanks Dan. I used to play this Ibanez a lot more than I do now...and it shows...lol