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Ken, you can push the meade around just like a dob if that's your wish. The auto align (using sirius and canopus which at 42 south are almost overhead) takes only a couple of minutes and has been accurate enough on my LX without training. The long cord thing is critical Rohan, most people simply don't realise how heavy cables should be at 12 volts. I used to be a solar dealer and saw many cases where excessive resistance in 12 volt cables caused 12volt flouros to burn out. The cure was always the same, usually 6mm sq cable. If you've got say 4 x 15W 12volt flouros you've got just on 6 amps of current. Just 0.5 ohm of resistance and you've lost 3 volts and given that 12 Volt flouros don't work below 10.5 volts you can imagine the consequences.
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