ROWAN HEQ5 PRO BELT KIT
Rowan Astronomy
ROWAN HEQ5 PRO BELT KIT is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
The Rowan Astronomy kit for Heq5 upgrades your mount reducing periodic errors and backlash.
This kit replaces the factory spur gear drive train with timing belts. The pulley modification reduces the spur gear errors that are typical and it therefore reduces tracking errors. The belts also make slewing much more quiet eliminating the 'grinding' noise that the standard spur gears produce. The pulley ratio is the same as the factory gears. This means the Synscan hand controller is unaffected by this upgrade. All Synscan functions will operate as before.
Video
Noise before and after the belt modification .
Video Instructions
Included Items
- 2 x 47 tooth pulleys. 2 x 12 tooth pulleys.
- 2 x timing belts.
- 4 x intermediate rollers and mounting shafts.
- 2 x RA motor and idler mouinting plates.
- 2 x Dec motor and idler mouinting plates.
- Stainless steel socket head bolts.
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Fitting instructions.
Customer Reviews
Game changer and a must have for the mount. Very easy to self fit but I recommend getting the extractor as well.
Don't even think about it. If you have a HEQ5 Pro this upgrade is a must. It changes the nature of the mount completely, quieter, more accurate and no more gear grinding sounds. My HEQ5 Pro is now more accurate than the AZ-EQ6 which comes from the factory with belts.
Installation was easy enough, set aside a few hours but a very satisfying result.
Improved guiding from over 1 to 0.56
Couldn't be happier
Perfect
A must have if you're getting the HEQ5. My guiding improved from .8-.9 rms down to .5-.6
A bonus would be quietness of the mount. No more teeth grinding metal gear sounds
Thanks!
