The tracking motor could run only on house current, although an adapter could be purchased to run it from an automobile battery. For some reason or other it was difficult to keep the scope in focus and the 5X finder scope was quite inadequate. I did purchase a Telrad finder, a 12.5mm eyepiece, a set of color filters, a piggyback camera mount and also a T mount for my Canon Tlb, and a solar filter. I'm fond of gadgets and astronomy and photography are gadget heavens for people like me. One important addition is the Orion Sky Wizard 2, a DSC which contains in its database more objects than I'll probably ever use.
Life is full of compromises.
My carpentry skills are questionable at best but the mount works beautifully and affords shake-free binocular views of many astronomical objects. I confess that it's a bit difficult to get used to the reversed views afforded by this mount but the advantage of rock-steady viewing by far outweighs that problem. It was an ideal scope for rushing out to quickly view celestial objects and was perfect for comet viewing at low power. After some years of enjoying this little scope, I yearned for optics which would be free of chromatic aberration and turned in my trusty S-80 for a TV Ranger. I can live with the Ranger but sometimes I wonder if I made the right move.