Paramount ME User’s Guide
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Cabling Supplied with the Paramount ME
The Paramount ME has two built in cables that pass from the Adapter Panel at the south
end of the mount up through the axis and into the Instrument Panel on the Versa-Plate.
Figure 33: Relationship between Adaptor Panel and Instrument Panel ports.
The outlined areas on this diagram show the connectors that have pass-through wires
(that is, no power from the mount is supplied to these cables) in the Paramount ME.
A fifty conductor, 28-gauge round-to-flat ribbon cable carries signals from the Aux 1 Serial
(9-line), Aux 2 (3-line) Serial and Parallel (25-line) to the corresponding jacks on the
Instrument Panel. An eight conductor 18-gauge cable carries the Aux 1, Aux 2 and
Camera Power lines from the Adapter Panel to the Instrument Panel*. The twenty-five line
parallel cable is for parallel port-based CCD cameras; camera power is routed through the
Camera Power connector.
*Early 2004 Paramount MEs use 22-gauge cables. If your mount is from 2004, please
physically inspect the cables on the back of the Adaptor Panel to determine the gauge.
The additional lines in the 50-conductor cable are used to carry focuser
and autoguider signals.
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