[AZ-Observing] Re: Cable Gone Out
- From: "Dan Heim" <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:55:39 -0700
Stan et al.
One of the guys in my club had a similar problem and ended up replacing the
whole paddle + cable system ... now it works fine.
This may go back to an earlier discussion regarding how Meade has changed
over the last 10 years. Probably cheap cable. You'd think they'd use a
cable with decent stranded (more flexible) wires, but I wouldn't be
surprised if they were using solid a.o.t. stranded. Did you ever strip that
old cable to see what the internal wires were?
Dan Heim
President
Desert Foothills Astronomy Club
http://www.dfacaz.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Gorodenski" <stanlep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "AZ-Observing" <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 1:44 PM
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Cable Gone Out
> Not too long ago someone had an issue with a Meade telescope acting
> unpredictably. I suggested check the cable from the mount to the
> handpaddle. I had the same problem with my Meade LXD75 10". I replaced
> the cable and it worked fine. I just now had the same problem with my
> 16" LX200R, but it happened at a bad time, causing me to be concerned
> that something more serious was going on with the circuit boards in the
> telescope. Thank goodness, that was not the case.
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