3 5 door hinge 3 1 x 3 8 hex bolt 1 1 x 1 4 20tpi carriage bolt 2 2 x 1 4 nut 0 10 1 x 1 4 x20 t nut 0 48 gorilla glue 7 2 x 13 1x6 lumber no source here as i just bought scrap wood.
Type 1 barn door tracker.
00 0 35 oz get it as soon as mon sep 14.
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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.
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A simple single arm barn door tracker can be made by attaching two pieces of wood together with a hinge.
All you need is something that looks like the wood in my pictures and two lengths of it.
An isosceles type barn door tracking mount tracks well for about 20 minutes if the polar alignment is good.
You can however make a 6 wide board and use a 4 hinge but you may give up some stability.
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Using a 1 4 20 screw the distance from the hinge pivot point to the center of the screw is 11 42 inches.
For a type 2 and type 3 drive b is measured from the drive arm hinge point to the sliding contact point.
Here are images for my barn door mount.
Assembly setting up your door tracker.
Cut your two blocks of wood pieces into 13 x 4 pieces.
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.
The hinge you measure from depends on the drive geometry since this distance must not vary as the arms close.