Posts Made By: Kent Gittings

Gary Hand is retiring. The last day Hands On Optics will be open is December 31, 2015. All new items in stock are like 15% off across the board. I was in there today to pick thru some things and ended up buying a display model Vixen R200SS + CC3.

Maybe you did not realize you needed the isolating relay box between that type of guider and your mount. If I am not mistaken the only old standalone guider that had the relays built in was the ST-4. All of the others requires the relay box (not sure about the Orion and Celestron guiders but since they work in 5v and not 12v they maybe they are OK).

When I had an EM-200 Temma I used one of those little HP handheld computers with a serial interface. Even though I still have that I don't think there has been support for those for a while. You can get a USB to serial port adapter for your computer, or you can get one of the wireless iPhone or Android(?) setups that runs off one of the astro planetarium apps like SkySafariPro (iPhone) or SkySafari4 (Android) or similar.