Paul:
There is a simple modification to the standard ETX that adds a push button
control of the the RA motor. This was described by Michael Hart on Mapug
about a year back. It may be in the the archives. Similar mods are
described on the ETX site:
http://hometown.aol.com/etxastro/index.html

Gregg L. Ruppel

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http://www.biz1.net/~ruppelgl
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: [M]: ETX as grab and go scope?


> At 01:44 PM 4/24/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >The old version has mechanical slo-mo. I've not found that to be a
problem
> >however; and in fact now I frequently get comments on how quite the
scope
> >is :-))>
>
> The reason I was looking for electrical slo-mo is that I understand that
> the ETX suffers from the same delay when starting tracking as did my
2045D.
> Drove me nuts. At least with electrical slo-mo it would be easy to
> re-center your object.
>
>
> Paul Goelz
> Rochester Hills, MI
> pgoelz at eaglequest dot com
> Videoastronomy and music web site:
> http://www.eaglequest.com/~pgoelz
>

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