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Owners of the Meade LX100 telescopes, unite!
From what I've seen, there's probably 5 of us worldwide.
Explaining the various types of Schmidt-Cassegrain systems to a new club member last weekend has prompted me to post this message. I've upgraded my scope to the point of where it is really a LX200, or as I like to call it, a LX100+50+50. The LX100 is a non-goto version of the LX200. While trying to diagnose why my DEC motor was too slow for guiding, I discovered that even the motors were identical to the LX200. The problem was the DEC motor thought it was driving the worm on an LX200 instead of the tangent arm system on the LX100. Although Meade told me it wouldn't work, I replaced my right arm fork with one from an LX200. It worked like charm. Now I had DEC speeds that matched my RA speeds. After running my scope for a while in this mode, I decided I might as well go with full GOTO. I purchased an LX200 motherboard, hand control, and power panel off of AstroMart. It was as simple as removing my old stuff, and installing the newly purchased stuff. No custom modifications needed. Now, the only difference between my scope and a LX200 is that my optical tube assembly still says LX100. So if any of you other four LX100 owners out there want to convert to GOTO, this path is easy and painless. If nothing else, you should replace the right fork arm so you can have easy electronic slewing. FYI, Jeff http://www.mindspring.com/~jeffpo |
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