Mounts
Vixen Great Polaris(GP)
This was the second equitorial type mount I have owned and came with my second-hand Celestron refractor. It is manufactured by the japanese company Vixen to a high standard of accuracy. There are many cheap clones of this mount availiable to amatures today but none match up to the accuracy of the real thing the mount is very lightweight and can easily be set up in one trip with counter-weight installed. In fact I usually just lift the whole telescope mount package out in one trip. This is very useful for me as the weather can be rather unpredictable and for those quick inbetween the cloud imaging runs it is important to have a versatile mount. I have recently equiped the vixen with motors in the right-acension(RA) and declination(DEC) axes so I can do long exposure photography. The mount has a weight limit of ~7kg which is enough for my camera and lenses but not much more. With the motors enabled I can get reasonable accuracy once polar aligned useful for about 3-4 minute exposures which is not bad for an unguided system.
Skywatcher/Synta EQ6
The EQ6 is the largest mount I know of made by the Chinese telescope company synta. The mount is very heavy duty in appearance and build quality is solid. The mount itself weighs alot and reqauires a few trips in and out the house to get it all set up. The actual head is an Equitorial type and is a very solid bit of metal. It has drive motors incorporated into the mount hiden behind a side panel. The mount is easy to operate quiet and can handle large loads, though it is worth pointing out that the altitude adjustment levers seem pretty vunerable to breaking but these can be easily replaced. I have not tried imaging on this mount as it was bought to carry my first telescope the orion 10" newtonian. All I can say is that it was easily enough for that scope so Im sure it would make a very good imaging platform.