{"id":282,"date":"2026-05-23T15:59:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/welcome-11e05dc.netsolhost.com\/?page_id=282"},"modified":"2026-06-05T16:25:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:25:41","slug":"ez-focus-customer-comments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/petersonengineering.com\/?page_id=282","title":{"rendered":"EZ Focus Customer Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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From North Carolina: IT WORKS!\u00a0\u00a0 IT WORKS!\u00a0 IT WORKS!\u00a0 Yea !!!!! Finally something that works like it says it does !!<\/p>

From Isle of Skye, Scotland: What a difference!\u00a0 I can even now tell by the feel of the focuser alone whether the mirror is moving up or down.<\/p>

From Massachusetts: This is the first time I have ever written any company about any product they\u2019ve made that worked well.<\/p>

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For the first time in the 5 years that I have owned my 8\u2033 f\/10 LX-200 I feel I finally have the ability to extract the most from the telescope\u2019s optical potential. I am strictly a visual observer.\u00a0 Observing at sea level near the coast is always a challenge, but it seemed I never could get a good focus at higher magnifications, no matter how much I fiddled with the collimation, which I thought was the reason why the focus was so poor. I was pretty much resigned to having 100x as the telescope\u2019s highest useful magnification.<\/p>

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I installed EZ-Focus last Saturday and used it that night. The difference was dramatic. I was able to achieve excellent focus up to 200x, splitting double stars near 1\u2033 of separation consistently. Globular clusters were in focus at 200x, not just a smear of light at that magnification.<\/p>

From Florida:\u00a0 Your product has improved my telescope\u2019s performance beyond the point that I thought it was capable of.\u00a0 Congratulations.\u00a0 Thanks for a great product. Your EZ Focus Kit is excellent and only took 10 minutes to install.\u00a0 All the backlash is gone in my 12\u2033 LX200.\u00a0 I may not need that Crayford upgrade after all!<\/p>

From Arizona:\u00a0 \u2026 let me congratulate you for the improvement in the focuser on my Meade 10\u2033 SCT!\u00a0 Jimminy Christmas what an improvement and it \u201cfeels right\u201d now!!<\/p>

From Michigan:\u00a0 I had to let you know how I feel about the EZ Focus Kit. This relatively inexpensive purchase saved me the cost of a Crayford focuser. It is amazing how well it works. It eliminated 75% of the image shift in my 8\u2033 LX200 and gave the focuser a VERY smooth and positive feel. It took longer to read the directions than to install it.<\/p>

From Virginia:\u00a0 I can\u2019t believe how much your kit improved the focus movement, backlash and even image shift on my new 10\u2033 LX200.\u00a0 This was the best $30 bucks I have spent in a long time.<\/p>

From Colorado:\u00a0 The kit arrived in yesterday\u2019s mail, and I leisurely installed it in the afternoon.\u00a0 Installation was easy \u2013 I was able to disengage the focuser on my 8\u2033 SCT without trouble, and disassemble it by hand.\u00a0 I was so pleased when I focused the telescope and found that I could move the focuser from inside to outside of focus, and back to the best focus position so easily.\u00a0 I can hardly wait to try the telescope with my CCD camera on a star field.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be that my days of soft star images are over at last.\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>

From Georgia: I received the kit today and installed it in a little time.\u00a0 Although it was cloudy tonight, I HAD to test this enhancement promptly, so out to the back porch I went.\u00a0 I zoomed in on a streetlamp and tested the focuser, noting that cylinder rotation is much smoother.\u00a0 Intra and extra focal images do not suffer backlash anything close to what I was experiencing with \u201cstock\u201d components.\u00a0 My electric focuser even sounds like it is laboring less!\u00a0 This is a common sense, very simple, highly-useful, non-time-consuming modification that every LX200 owner must perform.\u00a0 I encourage it highly.\u00a0 Thanks!<\/p>

From Melbourne, Australia: G\u2019day from Downunder,\u00a0 I received the focus kit yesterday and with trembling hands I replaced the three washers and added the grease. Hmm, it certainly was easier than expected!\u00a0 Tried my LX90 on a bright moonlit night last night and wow, the focusing was silky smooth and far easier to get any object in focus! Boy, 3 washers and grease and I\u2019ve got a more accurate focusing system and a lot of backlash gone!\u00a0 So thanks Peterson Engineering Corporation and to Michael Hart for his original design.<\/p>

From Florida: Congratulations on having great instructions included with your EZ Focus kit.\u00a0 I studied them here at the office, went home at noon and installed both\u00a0 the Mounting Assistant Classic and the focus kit.\u00a0 My scope is an 8\u2033 LX200 Classic and I was able to remove the focuser from the OTA.\u00a0 Meade certainly does use a lot of grease on the focuser.\u00a0 Everything fit perfectly, in fact after I had attached the focuser to the OTA, it was so smooth and effortless that I thought I had not attached the focuser to the 1\/8\u2033 pin so I took it back off, and yes it was attached.\u00a0 I\u2019ll put it to the test tonight if this high cirrus stuff goes away.\u00a0 Again, great products and great instructions.\u00a0 My friend will be calling to order one for his LX200GPS even though he has not yet received it.<\/p>

From Massachusetts: Your EZ Focus worked like a dream on my second-hand LX200 Classic.\u00a0 NO image shift now, smooth and easy focusing with no backlash.\u00a0 Thanks!<\/p>

From Massachusetts: \u2026I absolutely love the way it feels and works as compared to the original that was on my 10\u2033 LX200 Classic.\u00a0 Thanks for such a great & low cost product.<\/p>

From Italy: Just my $.02 about Peterson\u2019s EZ Focus:\u00a0 I was not at all thrilled with the focusing action of my LX200 Classic.\u00a0 There was WAY too much mirror shift, lots of backlash, and with each change in direction, a big \u201cdead-space\u201d where the focus wouldn\u2019t change at all, then would change dramatically all of a sudden.\u00a0 So I ordered an EZ Focus, and a JMI manual Crayford-style focuser ($169).\u00a0 They both arrived on the same day.\u00a0 Bottom line is the EZ Focus improved things so much that I returned the JMI focuser.\u00a0 The backlash is gone, mirror shift is only a few arc-seconds; in short it works the way it always should have.\u00a0 Thanks for an excellent product.<\/p>

From Oregon:\u00a0 Last week I installed the EZ Focus kit on my LX 200 GPS 10\u2033. I also installed the EZ Clutch kit.\u00a0 Of course as soon as I did so It rained for a week.\u00a0\"\ud83d\ude41\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But it did clear this week and I took my scope out for a shakedown cruise.\u00a0 I put my scope on the tripod (using the Mounting Assistant!) and went through the alignment procedure.\u00a0 I did not use the electric micro focuser the rest of the night.\u00a0 This is big.\u00a0 Prior to installing the EZ Focus kit the coarse focuser was exactly that. Very coarse. So bad it was essentially unusable with major backlash and mirror shift. So to spend an entire observing session without once using the micro focuser is phenomenal.\u00a0 Thank you very much. \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..\u00a0 PS The EZ Clutch works pretty good to. And I am so happy with these products I just ordered an EyeOpener as well. I wish you made more stuff!<\/p>

From Arizona: Sirs, I received the Focus Kit today for my new Meade 12\u2033 LX200R.\u00a0 It took me all of 25 minutes to install the new kit.\u00a0 The instructions were very accurate and easy to follow.\u00a0 I set my scope out in my drive after the moon came up.\u00a0 To be honest, I really didn\u2019t have any great expectations.\u00a0 I put in a high power eyepiece (12mm) and My God!!! what a Difference your product made.\u00a0 It was unbelievably clear, smooth as silk.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve every story about this Focus Kit but I just wanted to pass on my MOST SINCERE THANK YOU.<\/p>

From the UK \u201cFinally got around to installing the EZ Focus Kit and used it in anger for the first time. It really is a huge improvement. I can now almost spin the focus knob as everything moves so much more freely, and most importantly, the focus action is now direct and without lag. Meade deserve a kick in the tweeds for making such a hash of it in the first place \u2013 especially given that the purchase price of the 12\u2033 LX90 was not insignificant to me!\u00a0 The EZ Focus Kit (minus postage) cost me a shade over \u00a315. I really don\u2019t understand Meade scrimping over that sort of money, I would have gladly paid the extra for good focus control \u2013 which let\u2019s face it, is an absolutely essential telescope function!\u00a0 Enough preaching to the converted, cheers Pete, if only all my Astronomy purchases were so cheap and made such a difference!\u201d<\/p>

From New York:\u00a0 After lots of hesitation, I finally installed the EZ Focus kit, which I had purchased from you months ago, on my LX200 10\u2033 Classic. I had been apprehensive about breaking the scope in some way but yesterday I went for it. And to my surprise, it was MUCH easier to do following your instructions than I had anticipated; and better still, it really makes a HUGE difference in ease of focus, getting the images to snap into focus. Many thanks for a great product!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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