Just to mention.... I'm testing something that I would guess would be named 'continuous east heavy balancing', and so far it's looking kind of nice.
So I will not conclude anything before I get my new guidecam in the post, as I'm on the Obsolete Orion SSAG, and It's suffering some crashes.

So the east heavy balancing is to balance the mount or counterweight, witch ever is on the east side of pier, to be heavier. This way the gears on the mount always pushes on the scope. This reduces backlash balancing issues.
This is of course not possible on a remote setup if you are imaging on both sides of the meridian.

So the 'continuous east heavy balancing' is done by first balancing scope and counterweight neutral. Then attaching a rope / paracord or similar to the RA axis, and then letting it hang down on the east side of the pier making sure it does not touch the ground or get snagged while going the full "end to end" movement of the RA axis. Then add a continuous east heavy weight. I'm testing with a 1.25 kg weight. This is not like adding a 1.25 kg weight to the scope as the weight is added close to the axis, but it is enough to balance the scope and or counterweight to the east.

I guess this is a very DIY hardware hack and does not sound very 'pro', but it's not looking to bad at this moment

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