I find essentially no Dec backlash. The other night, just to check, I enabled backlash compensation in PHD2 at the minimum 20ms value. 4 hours of guiding later, PHD2 had not increased the compensation time at all, confirming that there is at most 20ms of backlash. [the Guide Assistant always reports a few hundred milliseconds, but that is based on just a single direction reversal and I have never found it to be even close to reliable]

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