This is a quick observatory update. I've removed this finder and the mount. The mount is one of those mounts that allows you to finally adjust it in altitude and azimuth. It's a very nice mount but it's incredibly heavy. These two things the mounts and the finder are two kilograms. So as a result my tube is no longer balanced properly. I've got a solar scope down there as an William Optics ED80 and I had the other finder scope here balancing it out and now I've got more weight on this side than I've got on this side. So my plan is to take all of those cables and electronics that are currently opposite this bit here and bring them to here and that'll help balance out the difference between the weight of this and the weight of those bits. Those bits don't weigh anything like as much as this but it will help a little and it'll reduce the leverage that these things here are putting on the mount so it should make it easier for the mount. I've been able to do this and remove the finder because I installed an off-axis guide which has been brilliant. I get always multiple stars to choose from. I'm using the latest version of PhD2 and with that you can do multiple star alignment. On some occasions I'm getting eight stars that it will find to do the tracking against. Which is pretty impressive given it's an off-axis guide. It's quite a large chip. This is the QHY5 L2 mono. Here I'm removing all of the cables and electronics from the telescope tube. Now I've got all the cables off. I've got a few hours of soldering to reduce the sizes of the cables so they're all nice and tidy. This cable only has to go to there so I'm going to make it a lot shorter so it literally just goes to there like that. This is what it looks like inside. This is my Juheater controller. It's actually a Vellumon motor speed controller which does pulsed width modulation to change the amount of power going to the output based on the resistance of this potentiometer. This box is an Arduino and a four-channel relay control board. It works with my as-concompliant power-buddy software. Since I've taken off the telescope I thought I'd change the resistors in it because the LEDs that light up have LEDs this side which is the input and then LEDs on this side which are the outputs. They both light up when the relays are on but they're too bright so I need to increase the resistor size on them to reduce the brightness of them. This is what it looks like inside. Here's the Arduino, here's the four-channel relay board. These are the pins that I'm using to control the relay board. There's four of them, one for each relay and then there's also a ground which is getting off the Arduino and a power which gets off the Arduino and then here is where you then wire up the relays to go from here. Vider relay over to here and then these are the resistors that I need to change. There's eight of them in total. My electronics book says I need to use one kilone resistors for a 12 volt supply and currently using 4.76 kilone and they're too bright so I'm probably going to look for 10 or 20 kilone's. Here I'm reconnecting the electronic boxes to the Vixen dovetail. The electronics have plastic dovetail mount clamps which I've 3D printed and glued on. The white box is my homemade Jew-heat controller. This is glued to my power buddy which is an adscom compliant relay controller that I designed. The next two boxes from left to right are an 8 port USB 3 powered hub and a power distribution box. This takes the single 12 volt 30 amp supply cable and splits it into five separate feeds. I do this to reduce the number of cables traveling up the mount. I'll leave a link to my EQ6 cable management system in the description. I measured how long each power cable needed to be and cut them down to size and resoldered the connections. I then sorted through my USB cables and fitted the shortest cables possible. A couple was still too long so I ordered shorter cables and fitted these off camera. This is everything I've removed but the finder, the mount for the finder and then this is all of the extra cable that I've cut out by moving where all the electronics is to a different position. So that's all this cable. So the cable comes to 299 grams. I've taken into account the pot. So I now reset the pot. We reset that to zero. We add on this. Got a thousand and 86 grams. And then if we add this on, we've got 820 grams. So those three things together come to 2.2 kilograms. I'm not sure that is in pounds, it's probably about five pounds. So that's quite a lot of weight all removed by having an off axis guide. So I hope you've enjoyed this video. If you have please click the thumbs up and if you'd like to see more videos like this then please click the subscribe button. I'll see you in the next video.