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| Guest |
 Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:03 pm |
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I bought this little polar scope to align with polaris but it's so
much effort to do that I think that it's not worth it. Besides, the
scope is supposed to have an illuminated reticle but it apparently
does not so I can't see the crosshairs in the dark anyway.
Richard Nacamuli
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| Howard Lester |
| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:13 pm |
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<richard.nacamuli@yahoo.com> wrote
Quote: I bought this little polar scope to align with polaris but it's so
much effort to do that I think that it's not worth it. Besides, the
scope is supposed to have an illuminated reticle but it apparently
does not so I can't see the crosshairs in the dark anyway.
Richard Nacamuli
Richard L. Nacamuli
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| Craig |
| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:20 pm |
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What kind of Polar scope and what kind of mount do you have? If it says
it has an illuminated reticle, there should be a location that the red
LED gets screwed into. Sometimes it is a larger battery operated LED
(and you could probably use the illuminator from an illuminated reticle
EP if you have one.) other times it is a small LED with wires to a
battery pack.
In any event, look for a screw hole in the body of the polar alignment
scope and put a red flashlight up to it while looking in the polar
scope. You should see red illumination.
Craig
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richard.nacamuli@yahoo.com wrote:
Quote: I bought this little polar scope to align with polaris but it's so
much effort to do that I think that it's not worth it. Besides, the
scope is supposed to have an illuminated reticle but it apparently
does not so I can't see the crosshairs in the dark anyway.
Richard Nacamuli
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