When I was using the Meade SCT's the first thing I did was to replace the capacitors. Unfortunately when they blow in the handcontroller "The brick", they also do irreparable damage to the internal connection(s) ribbon.
It's very straight forward to de-fork the LX200 - I've done it many time and have a write-up available....just the added cost of a EQ mount.
(The 8" SCT sits nicely on a HEQ5 mount)
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