Has anyone purchased gears from them, the aluminum or the HDPE gears? What is the quality of the gears? Here is the link... http://4dw.net/svdgoto/gears.htm ...
... Hi George, Excellent - I cut two new slightly thicker plastic washers and can now lock the altitude by tightening the through bolt from the West side,...
Hi Ricardo, I'm converting an old website I have for use with my astronomy interests and will let the group know when it's up (don't hold your breath!) The...
Meade had DS motors, gears and interface connectors available as parts on their website, but won't ship to Canada. So - who is a reliable source for these bits...
Hi Tom, I bought a set of DS motors from Bill Vorce about a year ago. I'm not sure he has any left http://www.telescope-warehouse.com/ Russell Optics has them...
Hi Guys, I just contacted a few dealers and told them the motors on my lxd75 were fried and did they have any spare that I could fit myself.. Took a couple of...
... parts ... I've been known to facilitate the evasion of Meade's restrictions on exports=8) What part of the great north are you located in? Oh, and thanks...
telescope warehouse in arizona ... From: George Cushing To: RoboScope@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 5:41 PM Subject: [RoboScope] Re: Where to...
I bought an Autostar, claimed to be a 495. Included are motors in plastic boxes, right angle housing with brass worms, a couple of steel worm gears about 1.25...
... Because you're not old enough? v1.2 came out in late 1999. Mike Weasner's site has the 497 version, but i'm quite sure there was a mirroring 495 version,...
Thanks, Arthur - I'll do that asap. Now I've managed to actually get hold of some, I really don't want to *really* fry them! ;) Regards, -- Rob (~52N, ~1W)...
Hi all, I would like to know if it is possible to replace the DC motors from a Meade #492 unit to some other DC motor (say more powerful), always keeping the...
... There are a number of examples described in the group's Files area, and in the subfolders therein. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RoboScope/files ... ...
Unless Chris Erickson is prepared to reveal on on his G-11 project. I going to try the DS motors on a G-11 I just picked up for a song. I was told by the owner...
George and Dick, I fabbed a cable and used StarPatch to upgrade my old 495 v1.2, and it was a piece of cake! Many thanks for the help and for the pointers to ...
My old system (as depicted in the Files section) is sitting idle in a box if anyone is interested. I have not had much time to work on my Losmandy retrofit...
I should have added that living at 61 degrees North Latitude, the G-11 has a few mount clearance issues and the right-angle gear heads only made it worse and...
... The die grinder gearboxes look promising. They have helical gears and some adjustment for backlash, although as they were designed to operate in one...
I continue to have "rubber banding" effects in the RA axis of my LXD- 75 mount. This only occurs in one direction (left arrow). I have to move my object to...
On your first question, I have a mount that I tried everything to kill rubber banding and nothing ever worked until I finally set the offending axis training...
... Everyone. Increase the Ra/Az Percentage setting. ... Please provide the actual set of Comet data you're trying to add which triggers that problem, plus...
Yes, thanks. I'm using firmware version 4.3E. I'm entering perimeter data for comet Linear C/2006VZ13 e= 1.0002380 Perihelion = 1.015249 Omega = 066.0267000 ...
... 43Ed noted... (Meade's ReadMe doesn't mention fixing this for 43Eg) ... That's too many characters.. what name are you really using? (i'm trying to...
For the name I entered: "C2006VZ13 Lin" SETUP>STATISTICS Says "0.1K Char. Free Version 4.3Ed" Not sure how many OOMETS I have but this is the first User added...
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