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Re: ED102CF focuser "notchy"?
when you say clonk, do you mean that it's tight in one spot ? or in a postion the focuser is loos/shifting ?
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MOUNTS: SW AZ/EQ5, MEADE LXD75, CELESTRON CG4, Farpoint Parallelogram.
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Re: ED102CF focuser "notchy"?
Great thanks, all sounds less terminal than I was fearing but who knows.John Donne wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 5:22 pm Check it out. It if happens once with each course knob rotation then maybe the knob is canted a bit and rubbing/ dragging in one spot. If it happens in one spot in the length of the focuser travel it could be a bit of hard grease or a piece of debris in the gear track.
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Is your telescope a
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I had an
I contacted The folks at Explore Scientific and they sent me a new focuser no charge. The scope was less that 365 days old at the time. The new focuser was a good one.
I am interested in your outcome on this problem.
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Re: ED102CF focuser "notchy"?
Check that all is tight, the first hexfocuser that I had to deal with had a loose gear plate for the R&P.
Inspect the teeth as well to make sure they are all straight.
One other thing to check if if the drawtube is staying flat or drooping after a certain distance.
Put some weight in the focuser and rack it in and out watching to see if the drawtube moves up or down as it goes.
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Good luck and have fun
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Re: ED102CF focuser "notchy"?
This is also a procedure you need to learn to be successful in the hobby, like collimating a reflector, or aligning finderscopes. You don't need to take it apart to the last screw, just take the focuser tube out, visually inspect, re-grease and adjust tension screws.Lady Fraktor wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 7:28 pm Adjusting focusers is fairly normal and usually is not that hard to do once you look it over and figure out how it works.
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Re: ED102CF focuser "notchy"?
Your accessories are at one end, the pinion is the fulcrum and applied tension in the focuser balances it out at the other end.
Once you have it figured out you will be able to adjust it quickly in future.
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