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Some success!
I figured it may well be the power not the data that is screwing up my USB 2.0 extension cable + repeaters. So I bought a tiny 4 port USB 2.0 POWERED hub, and connect one then two extender cables between my HUB and the PC and then plugged the CCD into the hub. And it worked!
So now I just have to either get a few more 5 metre extender / repeater cables (i.e. a simple Jaycar purchase), or figure if I can go wireless.
The wireless solution intrigues me. If I plug a fast wireless USB router and wireless USB antenna into my powered hub would this work? I ponder that the CCD into the hub needs the Meade Windows XP device driver to operate. Directly wiring to a PC works, but I am not sure if the wireless equivalent would too.
Alternately you could wire USB 2.0 to fast ethernet converters to a 20 meter LAN cable and run these into a PC, but again unclear if this would work.
But I'm getting closer!
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