How To Build A Double Arm Barn Door Tracker

Types of barn door trackers.

How to build a double arm barn door tracker.

While this article discusses building a simple single arm version you can create some advanced versions that include electric motors and driver boards to control them. The nyx tracker uses a curved drive screw which eliminates the need for a double arm design. Ed jones 6 454 views. It is sometimes called the haig or scotch mount.

There are a few different variations of a barn door tracker also known as a scotch mount or haig. Barn door tracker duration. Nyx tracker the only inexpensive ready built barn door tracker of which i am aware is the 89 00 nyx tracker from nyx tech. Make sure everything is square and moves freely clap the 2 hinged boards together and shout action a few times like they do when making movies if it makes a nice clack sound it should work well for a star tracker now measure 228 55mm from the center of the hinge pin down the middle of the board and mark the drive rod holes do this on.

The base board is the bottom board and hopefully doesn t move around during the course of the exposure. A camera is mounted on the top board usually with some sort of ball joint to allow the camera to be pointed in any direction. One end is connected to the base board with a hinge that allows the drive arm to. Double arm barn door tracker general mar pino charlez.

If you want a barn door but don t wish to build one from scratch this is your only option. A simple single arm barn door tracker can be made by attaching two pieces of wood together with a hinge. First cut the 500mm length in half and mount the hinge. Both ends of the drive arm are connected to the base board.

The hinge is aligned with a celestial pole and the boards are then driven apart or together at a constant rate. The barn door mount whether single arm or double arm is a very simple inexpensive device. Double arm drives have three main platforms.