Title: Dead and gone
Product review: It worked a few times, but now it's dead. The electronics don't work, so all you get for paying the hefty price of $399 is a piece of inoperative plastic--might as well point a wood stick at the sky. I'm trying to see if Meade will take the inert product back and ship one that works.I got a replacement in May, Meade came through well--no customer hassles! Put batteries in carefully, in an hour two of the battery casings split cuz of an internal short that started to fry them--never had this on any other electronic instrument. Using top-notch batteries, not some off-brand. I sensed this issue because the battery cage got to be very warm, and I opened it up and here were these two (of four) split batteries. Perhaps the battery contacts aren't very robust so they can get moved around and either (a) not make contact, perhaps my original issue, or (b) short out so as to burn out the batteries and maybe set fire to wherever you store this.
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