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ElementZer0
08-08-2019, 07:35 PM
Hey everyone,
I'm probably posting this in the wrong place. But I urgently need a Celestron CPC MC board (not deluxe). I'm going to Coonabarabran on Monday for the sole purpose of stargazing (I know Moon phase isn't ideal but I'll wait till 4:30 am after it sets) and when updating the MC board for the trip, MCUpdate completely fried both microcontrollers. They're $153USD, but I can't find anywhere in Australia that sells them. If there's no stores, does anyone here have any spares I could buy?

The_bluester
08-08-2019, 09:06 PM
I can not recall who it was at the time (The Celestron distributor) but some years back when I fried a board in my CPC mount they had them and they were reasonably priced. Hopefully someone can recall who that is and will post it in here.

garymck
08-08-2019, 09:09 PM
Hi,
Bintel should have it - I bought parts from then a couple of years ago when I had a CPC.

Cheers
Gary

ElementZer0
08-08-2019, 09:18 PM
Thank you so much. Even if they don't have it, you've given me hope. They didn't show it on their website but hopefully they still have some.

AndyG
08-08-2019, 09:53 PM
Hello Tom,

As mentioned Bintel have done the Celestron parts for a good while. You can tell them the part number from the Celestron spares website.

Also, Tasco took on Celestron Distribution earlier this year. A rep from them was active earlier - username "Earl". Here is his sig:

Earl
09-08-2019, 07:55 AM
Hi Tom,

I've check to see if we have the spare in question - but BINTEL are well worth checking to see if they have it in stock!

Cheers,

ElementZer0
09-08-2019, 05:46 PM
BINTEL came through, and at a great price! Thanks everyone, my scope is fixed. :)