Meade LXD75 mount

[Crunchard]

Hi, does anyone have any experience of these mounts? Good or bad. Thanks

[CGolder]

they are pretty solid and acurate mounts, very noisey

[Crunchard]

How is the noise compared to the NexStar SE?

I had one of those so can get some idea from that.

And could it be guided at a later date?

[m.tweedy]

Have you looked here. It was a goldmine of information when I had an LXD55

Weasner's LXD55/75 Site

[Crunchard]

Cheers for the link

[CGolder]

if you run the mount in quiet mode it sounds ok, in normal mode it made my kids run away holding there ears, the se is not loud at all im comparison

[Crunchard]

Ear defender time?

Think I might give it a miss and stick with a Skywatcher EQ equivalent!

[hemihaggis]

i have an ldx 75 , i wish i had a different mount ....

[Vlad]

I have an LXD 75. It is solid as a rock on my steel pier. I had to do some fine tuning of RA and Dec drive backlash, and the main axis in altitude is /was poor, but after fixing that, superb! Send me PM if you like, tell me what the problem is! Could save you lots, and work well for you.

Phil

[Meademan]

From what I understand, they are a good mount, but don't have the load carrying ability of the Skywatcher mounts, like the EQ5/6, but there again, they can often be sourced a little cheaper as well, so horses for courses I guess!

[soggybongo]

Take hold of the counter weight bar and gently work the axis in both directions, if everything is perfectly tight & there are no backlash or end play issues the axis will not move. You shouldn't be pushing or pulling so hard on the axis via the counter weight bar you can move it against the clutches, just enough pressure to determine if there is any looseness or play in the axis. If you cannot get your clutches to tighten down enough to resist some light pressure against the axis without slipping we are going to need to fix that now. This is a simple fix, there is a Phillips head screw in the top of each black clutch lever, remove it pull the clutch lever off & reposition it so you can get the clutch tight enough on the axis to resist the light pressure needed to check the worm gears. Put the Phillips head screw back in the clutch handle head and secure it, your done with that!

For further tightening see link below

LXD75_Maintenance_101