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This Makes Pier-Tech 2 Particularly Attractive:
- Professional quality mechanical design to assure precision elevation, retraction, and good longevity. Pier-Tech 2 is a patented (US Patent#7,048,238) electro-mechanical telescope pier designed for the observer who wishes to raise and lower the pier locally by push buttons on the supplied hand held pendant.
- The Pier-Tech 2 height spans (dimensions are ± ½ inches):
1. 30-½ inches (77.5 cm) elevating up to 50-½ inches (128 cm), or
2. 31-½ inches (80 cm) up to 51-½ (131 cm)
The pier provides 20 inches (50.8 cm) of precision vertical adjustment keeping your telescope polar aligned and level. The payload remains level and polar aligned well enough for visual uses at every height, for imaging we recommend aligning and using the system either fully retracted, fully extended or at any one particular height. The good results are guaranteed or your money back!
- simply push the button on the hand pendant to raise the eyepiece to your eye, while still keeping the telescope level and polar aligned GUARANTEED! Best of all, target stays in the field of view!!!!
To read more about the repeatability precision and how this is determined read Polar Alignment Repeatability in our Pier-Tech Notes & Interesting Articles
- Similar construction to the Pier-Tech 1 with the main beam consisting of built in slots on all for sides for mounting accessories to the sides of the pier such as the Pier-Tech Eyepiece Tray or Laptop/Accessory Tray.
- This is an pleasing contemporary design made of aluminum and stainless steel, with the Pier section finished in Silver and with Black Top and Base panels. The finish is durably anodized and/or powder coated for corrosion resistance. However, when not in use we recommend covering the Pier to protect the surface finish and to prevent fading from excess exposure to sunlight.
- The Pier-Tech 2 weighs 70 lbs. (32 kg).
- The Pier-Tech 2 has a total working payload capacity of 215 lbs (97.7 kg). For those requiring capacities for even larger payloads we recommend the Pier-Tech 3 or even the greater capacity Pier-Tech 4.
And those who seek an elevating pier suitable for both fixed and portable use should consider our Tri-Pier2.
- Includes a precision machined flat Top Plate with hole pattern drilled to accommodate your telescope, Latiwedge, or other equatorial Wedge hole patterns (please specify when ordering). This service is included in price.
In time if you change telescopes then the Top Plate may be removed by the user and returned to have a new hole pattern drilled if necessary.
Optional telescope Mount to Pier adapters are available to hold most third party mounts that require a recessed fitting.
- You can install this Pier atop almost any rigid structure with our supplied hardware. We supply the Pier with an Anchor Plate so all you have to do is bolt the Anchor Plate onto a flat surface, or set the Pier-Tech Adapter Plate with 'J' bolts into the freshly poured concrete of your pier foundation. Then bolt the Pier-Tech onto the Adapter Plate; the bottom plate of the Pier is bolted onto the Anchor Plate by four (4) 3/4" 10 tpi stainless steel anchor studs. To complete the task, make minute adjustments to the tilt and leveling of the Pier by adjusting the four bolts.
The Anchor Plate is sent to the customer soon after the order is placed so that while the pier is fabricated there will be time to prepare the foundation.
The Anchor Plate used for the Pier-Tech 2 is the same as that for the Pier-Tech 3, so it is a simple matter matter to upgrade in time if your payload requirements increase.
- The Pier-Tech 2 operates by means of an 110 volt AC (optional 220 volt) electric motor. If your facility lacks AC power then the system well operate from 12 volt DC batteries through an Inverter.
- Pier-Tech products are engineered and provided largely assembled and with good documentation so that installation and set up will go smoothly - even for the mere mortal.
- Pier-Tech piers can be disassembled and relocated easily.
- Pier-Tech has engineered a comprehensive array of accessories for their piers and observatories including:
- Pier-Tech has developed the Tele-Station observatories, each with a roof panel that retracts. And so with the elevating pier raising the telescope to or above the wall level, one can observe from horizon to zenith!
- Optional Auto-Pier Telescope Pier Control Software & Hardware permits the complete remote operation of the pier. Or control the observatory and pier with commands transmitted by hardwire or by cellular communications with the Advanced Observatory Control Software & Hardware - all from the comfort of your own home or from another part of the world, with the optional Wi-Fi or Cell tower Communication Module.
- Solar Panel Power System to operate the pier and observatory for remote installations or simply for those who wish to make an environmental statement.
- Pier-Tech 2 can be made portable with optional leg and castor attachment. The leg assembly comes with 3 castors for mobility and 3 leveling feet for leveling the Pier.
- Company Seven can provide as much support as the customer prefers: consulting and sales, facility preparation (foundation work, utilties, permits), construction, systems integration, and operator training. Just tell us what type of telescope and mount you have, and we can take care of the rest.
- Company Seven preaches "the best telescope is the one that gets used". And so the convenience of having the telescope set up in an observatory, with the mount aligned and ready to go increases the instances when the owner will enjoy the night sky.
Above Right: Click on image to see the streaming video of the similar roll-off roof TeleStation 2 Observatory with Pier-Tech 2 elevating Pier.
Video will download in Apple Quicktime format. The one minute presentation amounts to 31,166,260 bytes.
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Pier-Tech 2 retracted and elevation
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Tele-Station 2 Solar Panel
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Pier-Tech 2 Adjustable Height Pier Pricing: |
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PT2-110A |
Pier-Tech 2, 30.5 to 50.5 inch, 110 volt AC |
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PT2-110B |
Pier-Tech 2, 31.5 to 51.5 inch, 110 volt AC |
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PT2-220A |
Pier-Tech 2, 30.5 to 50.5 inch, 220 volt AC |
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PT2-220B |
Pier-Tech 2, 31.5 to 51.5 inch, 220 volt AC |
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Pier-Tech 2 is made in Silver with Black Top and Base panels:
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Pier Anchor Plate Installation Manual Revision July 2008. Complete three (3) page color illustrated instruction manual for assembly of the Pier-Tech Anchor Plate (to attach Pier onto concrete or other platform). By Pier-Tech, all rights reserved (288,737 bytes in Acrobat Reader ".pdf" format).
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Pier-Tech, Inc. is a US based manufacturing company. The company was established for the purpose of making fixed and portable Piers that can accept astronomical German Equatorial or Fork Mounts or other instruments. In time they expanded their production to develop astronomical observatories with slide-off roof, and most recently in 2008 they expanded production to include observatory domes for use by professional and home astronomical observatories, and planetaria constructed of galvanized steel in diameters from 8 feet (2.4m) up to 30 foot 6 inches (9.3 meters)! So by 2008 Pier-Tech was offering almost everything that an amateur or professional astronomer could want to house their telescope or other project.
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