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Old 11-09-2007, 06:27 AM
Dennis
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Originally Posted by citivolus View Post
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On a side note, I once bought a scope from a man who thought he had to program his PEC every night. Yes, he sat there for 30 minutes every time he went out, manually training & checking his PEC. I think he was a masochist.
Sounds like a pretty onerous task! I think some early models (maybe Celestron) did not have PEC retained in memory. So, when you powered off the mount, the PEC settings were lost. Meade then introduced PPEC (Permanent/Programmable PEC) which was retained when power was removed from the mount.

On the wonders of modern electronics eh.

Cheers

Dennis
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