Meade LX70, want to ad motor drive and go to

[RallyeX]

I am new to Astronomy and I bought a used Explorer Scientific Comet Hunter and a Meade LX70 mount. I would like to add a motor drive and go to on it but Meade discontinued the motor drive. Doeas anybody know of a different motor drive and go to that will work on the LX70 mount?

[joe aguiar]

Any of those synta single or dual axis motor drives all work.

The lx70 is a regular eq5

Joejaguar 

[RallyeX]

1 hour ago, joe aguiar said:

Any of those synta single or dual axis motor drives all work.

The lx70 is a regular eq5

Joejaguar 

Thank you for helping! I ordered the Orion dual axis true track motor drive kit. Thank s to amazon prime it will be here tomorrow. I will post how it works.

[Cornelius Varley]

6 hours ago, RallyeX said:

Thank you for helping! I ordered the Orion dual axis true track motor drive kit. Thank s to amazon prime it will be here tomorrow. I will post how it works.

The Orion dual axis drive will add tracking to your mount, but not goto. For that you will need the Synscan EQ5 goto upgrade kit.

[John]

7 hours ago, RallyeX said:

Thank you for helping! I ordered the Orion dual axis true track motor drive kit. Thank s to amazon prime it will be here tomorrow. I will post how it works.

It should fit fine. As Peter says, it's not GOTO but it is a useful upgrade to the mount.

Be careful with the DEC motor - the cable connector for that motor is rather exposed and can get knocked and broken easily.

 

[RallyeX]

5 hours ago, John said:

It should fit fine. As Peter says, it's not GOTO but it is a useful upgrade to the mount.

Be careful with the DEC motor - the cable connector for that motor is rather exposed and can get knocked and broken easily.

 

I decided to only make it motorized. I put a Sky-Watcher EQ6-R on layaway.  Once I get it I will put the Explorer Scientific on it and use the LX70 for my camera and a different telescope.