Patrick:Please forward this to her. If this is a newer model LX with Autostar (and I think it is) it is EXACTLY the problem I had with my first LX. That was at a time when Meade offered excellent customer service and I was lucky to get hold of a great tech who told me to "train the drives". He explained that there is one page in the whole manual that looks like nothing and usually gets overlooked. He insisted that training the drives would cure my problem. He "guaranteed" it. I had more than my fair share of doubts but it worked. In later years I had similar problems with LX-200's that came and went and "training the drives" always worked. Again, this is only the scopes with Autostar. Since it is a 14" I'm pretty sure it is an Autostar model. I am unaware of any LX200 14" "Classics". I could give you other stories of this curing Meade problems (even this year) but I won't do it here. Try it she will like it. Steve
From: paw@wirelessbeehive.com Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:09:58 -0600 To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Seeks help with Meade repair
I received an email from a lady in southern Utah with a Meade 14 LX-200 that is having troubles (never heard that before).
Quoting from her email:
"It will not slew properly, so matter how many adjustments we make to the alignment or declination. also the motor is running constantly, not just when its slewing. we had a guy up last night who used to sell these things and he could not get it to work. It appears to polar align on goto easy align, but when slewing to 2nd coordinate, it moves in random directions."
She says she sent it to the factory for repairs and when she got it back it still didn't work (never heard that before).
Poor lady sounds pretty stressed about it but I'm not able to help.
However, talking to Charlie Green I learned there's some place that specializes in getting Meade scopes to work but he can't remember details. He's going to see if he can find details when he gets home in a few days but in the mean time, anyone here know about such a place?
Thanks,
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