I worried about straining the end connectors if the coiled cable was stretched more than shown above.Įven if I can repair the old Wireless AutoStar II handcontroller, there is still a need to use the wired AutoStar II at times. This photo shows about the maximum stretch of the Meade cable: Holding the wired handcontroller and walking around the telescope while it is slewing is also rather limited with the short Meade cable. Why did I need a longer cable? Simply put, the 12" telescope is so large that the supplied coiled cable does not allow holding the AutoStar II handcontroller at a comfortable and usable distance from the telescope. Cleaning the key mechanisms might or might not cure the problem, but before I would attempt cleaning I new that I needed a longer AutoStar II cable than the one that Meade supplied with my new 12" LX600. Key presses were no longer reliable, making the wireless handcontroller less useful to control the telescope. My Meade Wireless AutoStar II handcontroller, purchased in October 2010, just before it was discontinued, was beginning to show its age in early 2016.
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