Gina's All Seeing, All Singing and All Dancing All Sky Camera

[Gina]

I guess this is a good place to show the circuits for the cooler and dew heater.

This is the circuit diagram for the camera cooler.  The diode from the 5v supply provides a background cooling (always on) that will cool the camera because otherwise the camera has no cooling and would overheat.

Dew heater circuit with heater in the +ve side.

[Mick_H]

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Moving on now to the other upgrade

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Obsy, telescpoes, cameras, gadgets and bit and pieces. ? 

[Gina]

No progress on this recently partly due to the weather which has made astro imaging hopeless but also the complicated nature of the water cooling and associated problems has put me off.  In fact, I'm thinking that though water cooling is extremely effective and an interesting idea, it's really overkill for our weather conditions most of the year.  We only need that much cooling in high summer.  Maybe only in a heatwave even.
 

This has made me think of abandoning this ASC version and going for a far simpler design.  I'm considering a redesign and the umpteenth version, without water cooling and maybe using the more sensitive ASI 385MC camera and simple air cooling.  I feel I need to simplify things.

[Gina]

I have decided to go for the simplest ASC build I can and will start another thread.  I'll post a link to it here when I've set it up.

[Gina]

Link to new ASC version :-

 

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