Beware of the iOptron Skyhunter. This mount has had issues since it's roll out and they have not gotten them figured out. They are still selling them though and their "policy" is to make the customer pay for shipping after 14 days and after 30 days they'll make you pay for them to ship it back to you as well after they "fix" it. OPT the vender I bought it from was no help either, they're each pointing their fingers at each other. The following is a copy and paste from a review at Cloudy Nights by me.
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So I have seen threads here and elsewhere regarding issues with the iOptron Skyhunter and had come to the conclusion that they appeared to have them worked out, nope. I bought one almost 2 months ago. The
This is not a big problem though seeing as I use a laptop running
The big issue is, after running the mount for a little while, the
This requires shutting down, removing the scope and mount and dealing with the problem. This is ridiculous in my opinion, maybe that's just me though.
iOptron support said they have their team working on adding teflon or brass washers to the internals to fix this. Since this
Even if the
I will say that it did have good
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