Posts Made By: Jerry Scavezze

Hi, Just received my new (used) tele and have a couple of very basic questions. It came without a power supply. It says 18 Volt on the electronics box, but from the internet I get that alot of people sell and use 12V adapters with this scope. Is this OK? It is missing the spreader in between the tripod legs. Is seems that this is necessary to actually tighten the the scope to the tripod. Is that accurate. Anybody have one to sell? The tripod has 3 silver colored allen head screws sticking out of top of tripod. Looks wrong to me. I removed them. They are sitting on right side of tripod Base. Does the telescope base sit on these bolt heads? This thing is Huge, and Heavy, (what have I done)? I'm used to my 8". It was sold as parts/not working. I was excited to see if it works at all so I hooked up a generic 12vdc adapter and the hand control lit and says Meade, then Telescope. When I plug declination cable in the hand control lights go out and it doesn't respond. Any ideas? Thanks for any input. Jerry