Re: 12volt or 18volt that is the questiion..
| Subject: | Re: 12volt or 18volt that is the questiion.. |
| From: | Email address hidden |
| Date: | Mon Apr 29 04:42:01 1996 |
>Yes, Kal is correct on all points. Some of us buck the system, though.
>
>(by the way, does anyone know if Meade recommends that scopes bought
>*before*
>the change in recommended voltage should also change to 18V operation -
>that would indicate whether or not any hardware changes were made to
>accommodate the higher recommended voltage.)
>
>Rob Preston
>Pittsburgh PA
>rapr@med.pitt.edu
Dont take this as gospel, but all the information I got when I was deciding
whether or not to get the LX200 was that the 12V and 18V scopes were
electrically identical. Meade merely decided to increse the input voltage to
cure some problems. What these problems were was never rationally explained
to me, though.
I elected to use 12V on my 18V scope because I was too cheap to get the 12-1
converter, because I was not willing to sacrifice a little battery capacity
to the inefficiencies of the converter, and because the idea of using it
offended my sense of simplicity. Remember, though, that I bought the LX200
after waiting a year for the never materialized Celestron Ultima2000, with
its self contained power source.
Paul Goelz
Evanston, IL
