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Meade ETX 125 Telescope heavy electrical wiring mod

Step 4The base wiring

The base wiring
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The fork base box modification procedure is pretty much the same. An additional RJ14 connector had been installed right below the scope connectors board, closer to the AutoStar connector. It will provide the connection to the AutoStar's serial port.

The second image shows this board and some additional wires soldered right to the back of the PCB, to the contact plates, it's not possible to reach the front side of the PCB. The green and yellow wires are connected to the AUX connector data pins, the brown wire is signal Ground (negative), the red is positive. The power wires was later equipped with a 2 wire inline connector taken from a PC cooling fan to allow easy disconnection of the battery holder along with the bottom lid.

The bottom fork mount compartment open:
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