fredman

Well I had a USB cable laying around I cut it and used the USB A side to connect it to a Power bank and the scope came to live but it didn't have the strength to move the motors as it was always getting an error message. I ordered an 8 AA battery pack from a local electronics store for 1.40$ and I just have to connect to existing wires. The actual battery holder that my ETX has is 6 making a 9V, so I am stepping up to 12V.

If I do that bit of join a red to red and black to black but to an usb cable, can I get it to work connected to a power bank?

Hi all, I haven't posted in yeeaars. Last weekend I brought my dad's Meade ETX-70 and I was thinking about converting the AA battery pack into something else, like connected to a powerbank. Yesterday I found out that one of the connections got corroded (the batteries were there since my dad bought it - 7 years ago), not the one in the photo and one of the wires got loose. Is there anybody here who has made the same modification, or does anyone know a good step by step tutorial. I've never soldered anything but I am willing to do it if the tutorial explains it well on how to do it. Thank you for the support

Old metal cosmetic case. Foam that was laying around Black thin fabric to cover the foam. Voilá

I have on made out of an old cosmetic metal case. Nothing profession like yours [emoji3] I'll post a photo just for the laughs