Posts Made By: Roger Gilbert

I have recently suffered a back injury that looks like my limmit to carrying things will be 25 lb. I currently use a Celestron 11 GPS scope and now I can not carry it. Being an engineer I have put my mind to work and not willing to give up the large scope, I have come up with the following idea:

I am going to take all the parts from an electric wheelchair and build a rectangular frame to hold the three wheels per side. They will be driven by the electrics from the wheelchair.

The frame will be 12 inches thick and house the batteries and all other components below the deck. Four outriggers will swing out with jacks at the ends to level and steady the entire unit in position.

A central pier will be mounted in the center of the frame to hold my scope, wedge, and other optic parts. A sleeve at the base of the column will be able to rotate around the pier mounted to this will be an adjustable height seat which holds my laptop computers on the armrests.

Because the unit will have 4 51AH batteries I could walk alongside the entire unit for about 30 or 35 miles if I wanted to. ( The remote control is wired and carried in my hand )

With a small trailer to put the unit in, it will still allow me to go to all the star parties that I want.

Has anyone seen anybody working on something like this ?

Or does anyone see any unsurmountable obsticals to building something like this ?

I really want to make the unit narrow enough to fit through a doorway so I can run the unit in and out of the house.

Sure would make setup easy

I have recently suffered a back injury that looks like my limmit to carrying things will be 25 lb. I currently use a Celestron 11 GPS scope and now I can not carry it. Being an engineer I have put my mind to work and not willing to give up the large scope, I have come up with the following idea:

I am going to take all the parts from an electric wheelchair and build a rectangular frame to hold the three wheels per side. They will be driven by the electrics from the wheelchair.

The frame will be 12 inches thick and house the batteries and all other components below the deck. Four outriggers will swing out with jacks at the ends to level and steady the entire unit in position.

A central pier will be mounted in the center of the frame to hold my scope, wedge, and other optic parts. A sleeve at the base of the column will be able to rotate around the pier mounted to this will be an adjustable height seat which holds my laptop computers on the armrests.

Because the unit will have 4 51AH batteries I could walk alongside the entire unit for about 30 or 35 miles if I wanted to. ( The remote control is wired and carried in my hand )

With a small trailer to put the unit in, it will still allow me to go to all the star parties that I want.

Has anyone seen anybody working on something like this ?

Or does anyone see any unsurmountable obsticals to building something like this ?

I really want to make the unit narrow enough to fit through a doorway so I can run the unit in and out of the house.

Sure would make setup easy

Help,

At a star party this evening my Celestron 11 GPS suddenly quit working. I took the unit home and removed the covers from it. I found the power cable from the rotation disk to have a very poor crimp so I recrimped it, I hate insulation displacement connectors.

I left the unit dissasembled on the table and went to answer the door bell.

My five year old decided she would help me and unplugged the control board from under the top base cover and came walking to the door saying here dady I help you.

Can someone tell me what connector is supposed to go to what ? I can't find any information about this anywhere on the web and I need to get the scope put back together for local star parties we are doing all holliday weekend.

Please help if you can.