Recently I upgrade my Star Adventurer from a 2i to a GTi and the difference is amazing.

The goto functionality alone works really well and saves so much time. The unit its self is well built (apart from the battery compartment which can be a pain at times) and the addition of a fairly flexible intervalometer is a nice touch too.

I unpacked the unit set it up and mounted my camera on it, after polar alignment (which is simple especially as this unit has the illuminating led is now inside the polar scope) and then performed and alignment, this is both very easy and pretty accurate (even a 1 star alignment works pretty well)

I am generally very happy with this product, I would recommend running it from a power supply rather than batteries though.

FLO have been very helpful in this process they are an outstanding supplier and in my opinion second to none.

I found out about FLO from another member on the learning Astrophotography FB group. They proved to be a professional and reliable vendor. I had been in a holding pattern for over 3 months for a Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTi mount in the USA with no end in sight. FLO had inventory and completed my order so quickly that I would never have guessed it was sent from overseas had I not known that it was.

This mount has been out of stock everywhere for a while now, but preordered with FLO and very happy at how quickly it was delivered after it came back in - thank you

I am in the middle of setting this up for first light tonight and so far my impressions are very positive:
- The mount itself is definitely small enough that you could put it in a backpack and travel with it (although you probably don't want to pack the counterweights)
- I read a bit online about how the counterweight was too heavy to balance a very light setup, to my surprise rather than a single 5lb counterweight this came with 1.5lb and a 3.5lb counterweights. Sky-Watcher must have realised this was an issue and fixed it
- I am unsure what it's called, but the mount came with a "printer" USB cable. I have tested this out by plugging it into an ASIAIR (pick EQMOD mount) and it was detected/does it's magic immediately. Super happy about this
- everything feels high quality and sturdy. The dials are all big and can see they would be easy to use even with gloves
- I had very low expectations for the tripod, but I'm actually quite happy with it. For a less than £100 tripod it's very sturdy and definitely going to be good enough for any load going on here.


a few "hmmm don't like that"'s:
- there is a really rubbish cap that fits over the polar scope. it connects in to where the battery packs go and while I have batteries in the mount I can't even clip the cap in properly. I will bodge some fix to this, but it's such a strange thing to do
- the tripod is sturdier than I expected, but the flip side is you're probably not going to be taking this tripod on a plane
- there is no spirit level on the mount, but I guess that's a very minor grumble
- I had a quick try to power the mount via an ASIAIR but couldn't get it to work. The manual says (a lot!!) that the preferred option is to use batteries, so I'm doing that for now and revisit this later.

Overall, what a great little mount for £600!

What a brilliant tracker light and very portable
The sale with flo was outstanding I was sent the product the minute it was back in stock
Great delivery time well packaged and I was informed throughout by flo of the time of delivery and tracking
Very pleased will buy all my astrophotography items here in future
Chris