".... You must be a young guy. :-) Since I got the 12" ...."


How about a survey - owner age vs. slew speed. Do you think there is
relationship ? :-))


----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: [M]: Goto accuracy and slew speed


> >I can live with a max slew speed of 5
> > but it would be nice to get
> > the same accuracy at the slew speed of 8. The
> > accuracy seems to get even
> > better at slew speeds below "5" but anything below 4
> > or 5 really gets slow for
> > long slews
>
> Hey John,
>
> You must be a young guy. :-) Since I got the 12" in
> Dec., the first thing thing I do after power-up is to
> set the slew speed to 3 degrees. Even at that, it only
> takes a few seconds to get most anywhere. This results
> in a lot less wear and tear mechanically.
>
> I do this now because, after many years of good
> 'goto', my old 10" got pretty sloppy in a lot of
> areas, including tracking. From now on my motto is:
> better safe than sorry.
>
> Alan Voetsch
>
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