Re: Scope City Story - LX200 GPS 12 & NexStar 11 GPS

From: Sean McCauliff (smccauli@No-Spam)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 19:13:31 MST

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    [snip]
    > So, Sam
    >allowed me to trade my NexStar 11 GPS up to a Meade LX200 GPS 12"
    >w/ UHTC.
    [snip]
    >>Sam put me in touch with someone high up in the Meade hierarchy.
    > I spoke
    >with him and he assured me that they do have a way of testing these
    >units
    >and that he can vouch for the fact that their "process" does work.
    > He said
    >they have an artificial sky and that each scope is tested with it.
    > (I still
    >have a hard time believing this. Does anyone know the facts surrounding
    >this?)
    [snip]

    On the LX200GPS news group on Yahoo groups, someone there mentioned that
    Meade does do not any vibration testing to see if the telescopes would
    survive shipping. According to a running poll on that news group about
    10% of LX200 GPS telescopes show up with some kind of severe defect.

    - -Sean

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