Hi,
I recently purchased an LX200 EMC second-handedly. The person selling the telescope to me had told me that he had encountered a problem with the computer booting up past the "Meade" reading on the hand controller. He said he resecured some connection on the motherboard, and it seemed to be working just fine. Well in any event, we worked out a cheap deal so that if this happened frequently, I could just contact Meade for a new electronics kit which would replace the guts and the controller. Well I would prefer to not do this as it would cost $500 and I think I have isolated the problem. I believe this problem has something to do with that metal plate on the motherboard that has that colored piece of plastic on it. It's located near the center of all the circuitry. Basically I'm wondering if anyone has encountered this problem before, and if so, what he did to remedy it. It just seems like a faulty connection to me as sometimes the computer will boot and other times it will not. I wish I had a schematic drawing available so I could be a little more specific, however Meade doesn't put that out for obvious reasons. The scope is only a year and a half old and does have the newest software before the GPS came out.
PLEASE! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Chris
I recently purchased an LX200 EMC second-handedly. The person selling the telescope to me had told me that he had encountered a problem with the computer booting up past the "Meade" reading on the hand controller. He said he resecured some connection on the motherboard, and it seemed to be working just fine. Well in any event, we worked out a cheap deal so that if this happened frequently, I could just contact Meade for a new electronics kit which would replace the guts and the controller. Well I would prefer to not do this as it would cost $500 and I think I have isolated the problem. I believe this problem has something to do with that metal plate on the motherboard that has that colored piece of plastic on it. It's located near the center of all the circuitry. Basically I'm wondering if anyone has encountered this problem before, and if so, what he did to remedy it. It just seems like a faulty connection to me as sometimes the computer will boot and other times it will not. I wish I had a schematic drawing available so I could be a little more specific, however Meade doesn't put that out for obvious reasons. The scope is only a year and a half old and does have the newest software before the GPS came out.
PLEASE! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Chris
