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Subject: Meade Quality
From: Brandon Jones
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Mon Mar 27 02:54:28 1995

Just a post relative to the question about quality in Lx200 scopes. I have worked in instrumentation for research for 26 years and a lot of it microprocessor based.I have been an ATM for thirty years or more and have built from scratch ten scopes including the optics and control electronics.I have built two CCD cameras to my own design. Three years ago I decided to buy my second commercial scope the first being a Celestwrong.This was a Meade LX200 f 6.3. I bought it without ever having seen one or used one .I made the decision based on the advertised design even down to the type of control processor used in the computer as I knew that who ever had designed it knew what they were doing.I have done the same since with other meade products and I have had virtually no problems whatsoever that mattered and have never been disapointed with any aspect of the performance in any way optical or electronic.I have recently done the same for a Meade CCD unit and I know that I will not be disapointed when I get it.For an optical company that has dared to stray into the electronic field Meade has done a startlingly good job and this is most likely one of the reasons that they had problems earlier on. I will shut up now before every body falls asleep.... oh dear did I spell celstron wrong then.... Brandon S. Jones