Gday Chris
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Is this sad state widely acknowedged by the Meade user community?
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Yep. Its one of the reasons we resorted to writing patches.
Lots of threads out there on this now on the yahoo and Cloudy nights sites. Weasner closed down his site before a lot of this came out, so you wont find much re it on his archives.
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Mine's brand new, the handbox plugs into the fork arms
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OK, then i am guessing that your original handbox had A4S1 on it, and in this case, it would not have worked with your mount if you selected ETX-90 for the model. If you had selected ETX-80, it would have worked.
A3S5 will correctl select the new ETX-90s but i stil dont like its bugginess.
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https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/5...x-90-problems/
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Where do I find all these different firmware variants?
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As per above, there are lots of threads on the CN and Yahoo sites dedicated to Meades re this, so i suggest you read a few before jumping. The patches, firmwares and 3rd party loader are all on the StarPatch site
http://www.stargps.ca/downloads.htm
but as per above, i suggest reading some other sites first before doing anything.
Also, Meades ASU will not properly update user data or load satellites, asteroids, tours etc to your handbox either, as Meade broke the code when they switched to the new processor in the Audiostar Hbx.
You will need to use my PEC editor to do that ( if you want to ).
Andrew