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Posts Made By: Rick Lucarelli

March 16, 2005 04:38 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Orange C8 drive controller - DIY or do they exist?

Posted By Rick Lucarelli

Hello,
I have an old orange tube C8, on the original fork mount. It has an AC RA drive (tracking) and it looks like someone may have added, or perhaps it is stock in later models, a DC DEC motor. Unfortunately, I don't have a controller for these motors so I can only use the plug-in-and-track AC RA drive. Does anyone know if a controller for both AC and DC motors exists or if there are schematics out there to build one?

Thanks a lot!