Hi all! New to this forum, couldn't see this particular question addressed elsewhere (w/apologies if I missed a thread addressing this already!).
My situation: I recently accepted the death of my old (ca. 1992) 8" LX200 (scope is fine, controller box up/down arrows won't work.... Hard to believe how crippling that one is!). After a suitable period of denial, bargaining, anger, etc., I went for one of the 8" LX90 ACFs High Point Scientific sold off a few months back. My work schedule should lighten up soon, and I'm looking forward to putting it to work (so far haven't done more than confirm that it arrived in one piece). I had a bunch of Meade/Meade-compatible accessories for my old scope, and I'm wondering how many of them I can expect this new one to accept, which I need to replace, or what's new and necessary. Hoping to move into DSLR photography one of these days.... The old accessory I'm particularly curious about is the Celestron focal reducer (also bought back in the mid-90s). It worked fine on my old LX200. But I'm seeing a fair amount of highly technical (i.e., over my head) chatter about that combination here.
My question: Does anyone know if a Celestron reducer of that vintage is: (a) at all useful and (b) compatible with the newer LX 90 ACFs?
Thanks so much!
th
PS: And if anyone knows of a fix for that old controller (ideally one that doesn't involve sinking serious money into a very old piece of equipment), I would be ecstatic to find out. Because as we all know, there's no such thing as too many telescopes!
PPS: And yes, I already know I'm stupid! No need pointing that out! 
