Type 1 Barn Door Tracker

Assembly setting up your door tracker.

Type 1 barn door tracker.

Cut your two blocks of wood pieces into 13 x 4 pieces. Here are images for my barn door mount. 00 0 35 oz get it as soon as mon sep 14. An isosceles type barn door tracking mount tracks well for about 20 minutes if the polar alignment is good.

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. You can however make a 6 wide board and use a 4 hinge but you may give up some stability. The hinge you measure from depends on the drive geometry since this distance must not vary as the arms close. Using a 1 4 20 screw the distance from the hinge pivot point to the center of the screw is 11 42 inches.

Homacer brushed nickel sliding barn door hardware single track bypass kit for four doors 8ft long flat track classic design roller for interior exterior use 2 flat 2 bent roller set 4 3 out of 5 stars 27. For a type 1 and type 4 drive b is measured from the camera platform hinge point to the sliding contact point. In stock and ready to ship. For a type 2 and type 3 drive b is measured from the drive arm hinge point to the sliding contact point.

All you need is something that looks like the wood in my pictures and two lengths of it. A simple single arm barn door tracker can be made by attaching two pieces of wood together with a hinge. 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. 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.