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After starting SharpCap for an imaging session, SharpCap connects to the camera and starts the cooling process. Occasionally, once the set point is reached, the cooler remains on and the camera continues to get colder. If I turn Cooling off and on again the correct temperature is reached and maintai...

Thanks Robin. I did try different power supplies and USB cables - and it wasn't SharpCap reloading the camera. I'm used to that. The fan (and cooling) started up OK and the temperature headed downwards but never reached the target temperature (-10°C). I returned it to Altair The 12V power supply I n...

I'll need to check which versions I was on, but I recently returned my Hypertec 533C because the fan and cooling were not working. On test in Altair they couldn't reproduce the issue, so I wonder if this issue is also affecting other Altair Hypertec cameras?

Martin

Hi, I think you are getting the 100 gain number from the equivalent ZWO camera - in that camera when you get to gain=100, the camera switches to HCG (lower noise) mode and gives approximately unity gain. In ZWO cameras 100 gain means brightening the image by a factor of just over 3, with zero being...