Touptec Mono - Dropping Frames
Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2019 9:24 pm
This afternoon I happily took 24 5-minute and 24 2-minute darks with a Toupcan Mono while having PHD2 running on the other camera (ASI120MC), no trouble.
This evening, Sharpcap drops every frame except the first unless the duration is 7.5 seconds or less.
Exactly the same settings and wires, only difference is that I'm outside. I even had the mount tracking this afternoon.
I'm despairing. My laptop seems to have become totally unreliable.
I'm capturing 7.5 second subs, as it only seems to drop less than half of the subs. 15 second subs the most I got was three before it refused to get any more, 15 dropped. It even gets to odd 30-second sub - but only ever reliably loads the first capture. On short exposures - a second or two or less it captures every frame. It just doesn't make sense to me - it was working 'rock solid' on 5 minute exposures this afternoon.
This evening, Sharpcap drops every frame except the first unless the duration is 7.5 seconds or less.
Exactly the same settings and wires, only difference is that I'm outside. I even had the mount tracking this afternoon.
I'm despairing. My laptop seems to have become totally unreliable.
I'm capturing 7.5 second subs, as it only seems to drop less than half of the subs. 15 second subs the most I got was three before it refused to get any more, 15 dropped. It even gets to odd 30-second sub - but only ever reliably loads the first capture. On short exposures - a second or two or less it captures every frame. It just doesn't make sense to me - it was working 'rock solid' on 5 minute exposures this afternoon.