pipe stress:
tube stress calculator
starlight focuser patent US6069754A
Well, any focuser (even starlight) can be broken if you use it beyond the payload limit, or mis-use. So don't be sold by those over-engineering marketing
Inside the pinion block, there is a brass brake lever in which holds the pinion shaft. The pinion shaft of the focuser sits inside 2 u-shaped openings in the brake lever. When the brake thumb screw is tightened, pressure is applied on the entire length of the brake lever and not on just 1 spot where the thumb screw touches the pinion shaft. The problem is that the u-shaped openings of the brake lever were completely worn away in which allowed the teeth of the pinion shaft to wear a groove on the flat of the brake lever and this allowed brass shavings to get into the reduction assembly. If Starlight Instruments was contacted early on about any questions regarding the focuser, Starlight may have been able to do a repair under warranty but the damage done was so excessive that brass shavings from the brake lever was in the teeth of the rack, in the reduction assembly and the brass shavings got between the drawtube and Teflon tape and damaged the roller bearings.
Megrez broken bearings
diy:
instructable
astrofriend friction coupling repair
My theory of construction is:
extender (rail + bearing/wheel) + draw tube + push-pull tilt adjust + friction brake + eyepiece compression ring
starhunter on various types of focuser
Ccd sensor tilt test jig
Critical Focus Zone, focusmax goldastro new CFZ ,
focusmax:
using FocusMax formula:
As an example, the Celestron HD/RASA (F/2) manual focuser has a thread pitch of 0.75mm/rev. The EAF motorized focuser has 5760 motor steps/rev. Thus, 0.75mm/5760 = 0.13(microns) per motor step. To be in the 1.6 micron CFZ, my RASA must be within 1.6 um/0.13 um/step = +/- 6 steps.
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