Well Paul beat me to the punch with posting his quick review, and with pictures even, I have some but will post them later. Plus I am missing the Autostar suite and LPI, I emailed Digitec Optical to see where it is
It took me about 1 hour to unpack and set the scope up. Here are my thoughts so far.
The tripod is smaller and a little more lightweight as compared to my LX90 tripod.
I like the finderscope, but as paul mentioned the caps are a joke.
Once set up the scope does have some wobble when looking at the moon if you bump the scope slightly.
THe view of the moon was great, nice color and very sharp using the 26mm supplied eyepiece.
The Focuser seemed good to me, but this is my first real refractor.
Now for the problem - Better check the drive motors VERY carefully. I was already to do my alignment but I did a "calibrate motor" and that wen well. I then went to move it back to polar home position and the drive did not sound right at all and the scope did not move. I did some investigating and found the drive motor is not mounted securly and was slipping down and the gears were grinding. there is an access panel to see the gears and they were just spinning. I could push it back up and it worked, but once I let go it sliped back out of place.
So now I need to call meade in the morning and figure out how to fix it, or ship it back.
I will post my pictures tomorrow.
James
It took me about 1 hour to unpack and set the scope up. Here are my thoughts so far.
The tripod is smaller and a little more lightweight as compared to my LX90 tripod.
I like the finderscope, but as paul mentioned the caps are a joke.
Once set up the scope does have some wobble when looking at the moon if you bump the scope slightly.
THe view of the moon was great, nice color and very sharp using the 26mm supplied eyepiece.
The Focuser seemed good to me, but this is my first real refractor.
Now for the problem - Better check the drive motors VERY carefully. I was already to do my alignment but I did a "calibrate motor" and that wen well. I then went to move it back to polar home position and the drive did not sound right at all and the scope did not move. I did some investigating and found the drive motor is not mounted securly and was slipping down and the gears were grinding. there is an access panel to see the gears and they were just spinning. I could push it back up and it worked, but once I let go it sliped back out of place.
So now I need to call meade in the morning and figure out how to fix it, or ship it back.
I will post my pictures tomorrow.
James
