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Subject: Re: LX200 clock
From: Brandon Jones
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Mon May 20 02:12:11 1996

> since there is no need for the local time display to be accurate in order
> for the
> telescope itself to be accurate in GOTO and FIND operations. If you need an
> accurate local time for your particular project and you want to use the lx200's
> local time display rather than your Rolex, it's a trivial matter to manually
> calibrate the lx200 display based on the Rolex display. Doing so will have no
> effect at all on any lx200 GOTO or FIND, however.
>
> It is true that the local time chip is used for aiming the slew to the
> second star
> during a polar alignment. However, centering that star (part of the normal
> alignment procedure) still calibrates the other clock chip (the one that
> actually
> controls the telescope), even when the local clock is very wrong.
>
> Rob Preston

Wonderful Rob but woudn't it have been more wonderful
if this information had been stated clearly in the manual or
shop manual we do not get so that we could have automatically
discounted this as a problem.If the manual also had some other
set up info like fork alignment etc etc a lot of the problems
discussed on mapug would go away.The problem is always
the same with marketing staff rules. Omissions like this
and the rule number two of marketing is never admit there
is a problem with anything to the customer in any possible way
to the customer rules supreme as usual.
Brandon S.Jones