That means we want to spin our barn door tracker at a rate of 360 degrees every 24 hours which comes out to be 0 25 degrees per minute.
Type 4 barn door tracker.
The hinge you measure from depends on the drive geometry since this distance must not vary as the arms close.
I m about to order the motor now but don t know how to power it beause i m a greenhorn in electronics.
For a type 2 and type 3 drive b is measured from the drive arm hinge point to the sliding contact point.
Hello peter i m buidling a type 4 barn door tracker.
A sidereal day on earth is 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 091 seconds long or 1436 minutes about 4 minutes shorter than a standard solar day and we can use this time to calculate the rate at which the barn door tracker needs to turn.
Ideally this drive requires a 1 rpm stepper motor however for shorter exposures on a stable platform tripod a well designed type 4 barn door tracker produces very acceptable results manually advancing the drive in small sequential steps in order to achieve one full revolution per minute.
Cut your two blocks of wood pieces into 13 x 4 pieces.
You can however make a 6 wide board and use a 4 hinge but you may give up some stability.
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A barn door is a specialized type of equatorial mount.
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Assembly setting up your door tracker.
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The mount shown here employs a type 4 double arm design.
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So my question is how to connect the motor which comes with two wires of about 18cm length to the power socket and how to switch between cw ccw.