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I am a complete novice, and I just bought this scope used to introduce my Grandkids (and me) to the skies. This interest grew from a great learning holiday at the Northern Studies Centre in Churchill, Manitoba.

So in any case, I bought the scope from a guy who told me it was working as it should (and was only used a couple of times), but that the batteries had leaked and the battery compartment would need cleaning. After cleaning all contacts, and installing new batteries in the scope (8 AA for power, and a watch battery in body of mount) I am getting no power to unit. The battery pack is outputting power fine, but the indicator light is not coming on. On further investigation, I noticed that someone had done a horrible job of soldering on the switch portion of the board.

I want to try to clean up that soldering job ... the contacts are joined with a big glob of solder. Ideally, it would be nice to get at the board to do the work, but I don't see how to disassemble the mount. I'm thinking there are screws below the pads, but don't want to start at that if I'm heading in the wrong direction.

At this point I'm looking for suggestions before going any further.

Cheers, Mike

Hopefully this link will work to pictures:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ePRYGw5RBJU3V1wz8
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Re: New User Need Help with StarNavigator 90

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Hello and welcome to the forums :)

Check out this site: http://www.weasner.com/etx/menu.html
It is mostly for the ETX telescope line but there is information on some of the other Meade series as well.
Hopefully some of our members with Meade experience will be along to help you out.
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Thanks. Will check that out.
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