4.7. To align the mount to Polaris with more precision slide the polar finder
(B) to the polar finder holder (1 Side A).
4.8. Peek through the polar finder (B) and centre Polaris in the centre of the
field. Move the tripod fine-adjustment knobs to do so. You are not ready to use
the Minitrack LX2. Please read the following section for more details about how
to use the Minitrack LX2 on the East hemisphere.
5. Balancing the Minitrack LX2 on the East hemisphere. The built-in timer pushes the photo setup to track the night sky. If
the setup’s centre of mass is slightly off to the West side of the hemisphere, the generate arm moment helps the timer to
track the objects, this is good. However, the opposite, i.e. if the setup is more off-balanced to east side may mean that the
timer will have a hard time to push and track conveniently. For that reason the built-in spring system acts as a
counterweight and gives an extra help to the timer by adding additional push.
5.1. Tensioning the spring.
For setups, slightly off-balance use the first
positions as shown (image to the left). You
can feel that the spring is not under a lot of
tension. Use the spring at its highest
tension only for heavy setups.
Please avoid unnecessary spring tension as
this might change the timer clock and
speed the tracking rate!
How to determine if timer is not able to push the setup?
Listen to the timer ticking without any load. Compare that sound to when the setup is assembled. If there is a huge
sound change – i.e. the timer is not as loud as it should be – the spring load system may be required.
