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... I add the results from the script (for USB3, see viewtopic.php?p=18033#p18033) by Jean-Francois, all settings like in the above post:

SP 14 297, EP 1 510 036, exp. shown in GPS status window 19.9432 ms; seems to run o.k.

Christian

Hi, Congratulations Robin on a camera that is now working again. I made an initial test only too. W7-64 i7 64GB, SC pro 3.3.7030 32bit, USB3, QHY174GPS with FW-upgrade, running and stabilised GPS and QHY driver from 2020 Feb 03. I attach a picture with all the information. a) I called one of my pred...

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Jean-Francois, I hope to be able to do some tests in the near future.

Cheers, Christian

Hi,

A quick test of this latest 3.3.7011.0 32bit pro under W7-64 with framework 4.8: installs and runs (only Test Camera 1 used).

Cheers, Christian

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Hello, Jean-Francois, the so called Slave Mode (the QHY description is here https://www.qhyccd.com/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=30&id=190) sounds interesting - e.g. 1µs (?) precision. There is a new driver, 2020.11.12 https://www.qhyccd.com/index.php?m=content&c=index...

Hi, Regarding SWRI/NASA: As far as I know they did not use the Slave Mode. This mode is only known from the Chinese QHY sites - I've never seen any use. The SWRI people, led by Marc Buie, were the first to use the camera for stellar occultations. They work with SharpCap and have made decisive contri...

Hello, Because of some occultation events pending this night I cannot answer in detail / make tests. But some points: For me (and I think for most of the users of this cam in the occultation community) the cam is only a tool among a lot of other things. And this tool must work - and it works using t...

Hello, Joke aside. I repeated my USB2 tests with USB3, same machine (W7-64 i7 16GB, SC 3.2.6441 pro, FW upgraded cam): USB2 as published above already: Mono 8; 1920x1200; USB trfc 0; bin 1x1; 640ms; immediately locked with default StP 6301, EndP 48004297 Mono 8; 1920x1200; USB trfc 0; bin 1x1; 320ms...

It is slowly becoming an independent field of science ...

Christian