Re: RCX400 review ?
- From: "George Normandin" <georgepn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 06:21:17 GMT
"RMOLLISE" <> wrote
> Let me make two comments concerning the (anecdotal) knowledge of the
> RCX 400 I have. I've heard two main complaints:
>
> 1. The tube is not completely closed.......
Rod,
The last time I looked my RC Cass has a big "gap" right in the front of
the tube and my Obsession 20 Dob doens't even have a tube!
> 2. Meade has had some problems with the focus and collimation motors.
> Focusing has changed collimation on some scopes........
Now that could be a problem that is difficult to fix. A friend owns one of
the two RC Cass companies and he told me that the focus/col system was his
main concern with the Meade RCX design as described on paper. He though
there was a chance that focusing would change the collimation. However, even
if this is a problem, if you need a big coma free field, it would be worth
it to just use a seperate focuser like many folks do with SCTs. While I
think an RC would be a better scope, one consideration is price: For what I
paid for my RC 10 tube and Mountain Instruments mount I could buy several
RCX's and keep 1 or 2 as backups for when one of them needed to be repaired
by Meade!
George Normandin
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