Meade Premier 2120 Mount Conversion

[dicranurus]

I own a Meade Premier Series 2120 Telescope which comes with an aluminum tripod, fork mount, RA drive unit and equatorial wedge. The telescope is not "Go To" capable, but I would like to covert it to a computer (hand set) controlled, go to mount. Does anyone have any suggestions how this could be done? Thanks I

[ronin]

If there is no Dec motor then it cannot readily be converted, simply you can move sort of left-right but no motor to move up-down.

Is it one of these:

LX6/2120

[Cornelius Varley]

As ronin says, the 2120 mount doesn't have a Dec axis drive so full motor driven goto might not be possible. Another option might be a push to system such as the Lumicon Skyvector digital setting circles http://handsonoptics.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_57_63&products_id=306

[dicranurus]

Thanks to all. The 2120 Tear Down article looks very interesting (I do have a lot of backlash when tracking). I did install an after market delineation motor that is controlled with the hand unit. Is there a method to computerize the mount such that it is go to capable. Another option is to buy another mount but I would like to find a way to make the existing mount work. Thanks