Meade 8" SCT LX10 EMC Motor Problems

[KEJ]

Hi

Not sure if anyone can help or offer any advice.

I recently purchased a second Meade 8" SCT LX10 EMC telescope its been fine for the past few weeks and uses a 9v battery to drive the motor.

Just now I was outside and it just died. I assumed it was the battery as it has been in it now for a couple of weeks.

No batteries in the house, rushed up to the shops, bought two batteries, came home installed one after the other - nothing. I then assumed it was the batteries as the last one was a Morrisons, poped down there bought a few more and rushed back - still nothing.

Not even a battery indicator.

I live in Plymouth does anyone have any advice or know of any repair shops near to me.

Hopefully thanks Keith

[msinclairinork]

I am not fimiliar with your setup, but my thoughts would be to try a multi-metre to check power is getting to the mount.

Also I notice some cheap batterys are never good for high-power devices i.e i'v bought cheap AA's to power a small digi cam before and all I get is a quick flash of power then nothing...pop in some duracells and off she goes.

If still there's nothing obvious then perhaps some dew caused an issue?

Sorry that's all I can think of just now.

Best of luck hope you get it up and running again soon!

Michael

[Steve77]

Hi,

Could be the fuse, fuses suffer with age, if it's like my old LX50 if you unscrew

the front panel there is a fuse located on the rear of the panel protecting the circuit,

check to see if its OK, only other advice is Telescope House they have a repair department for Meade scopes.

[KEJ]

Michael/Steve

Thank you for your prompt replies and comments.

This morning I sort of did a bit of both as I emailed a few shops and they suggested the same.

To cut a long story short, just took the base cover off and the battery connector had come off, before that I did call Telescope House and they basically informed me there was nothing much in them - so I am very pleased, however I think I will look for a DC power supply.

Cheers Happy Keith in Plymouth