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Robin, last night using my ZWO ASI 1600 MC camera I tried to capture/save dark's using the "capture dark's" feature in 16 bit mode, bin 2 with hardware binning on. The dark would just expose and it would say at the bottom right corner 0/10 but once the exposure complete there was no change in the 0/10. When hardware binning was off it worked fine using bin 2. Thank you!

Chris

Hi Chris,

thanks for the report - I will look into it.

cheers,

Robin

Thank you Robin for looking into it and it will be great when I can take & save dark's in order to remove the horizontal banding that appears when capturing images with hardware binning engaged.

Chris

Hi Chris,

this works for me with the ASI1600MM and the 071MC (closest cameras I have to your model). I did notice that I had to turn down the 'Turbo USB' setting a bit in Bin2+Hardware to avoid dropped frames - perhaps this is what was affecting your (watch the frame count/dropped frame count bottom left - it should be the frame count going up, not the dropped count!)

cheers,

Robin

Hi Robin

I had the turbo USB set to 96% and perhaps like you mention it was set too high. I will lower this number and watch my frame count to see if it lowers or increases. Thanks again.

Cheers,

Chris

Robin, just to let you know I was able to take my dark's with hardware bin on by lowering the Turbo USB from my previous 96% to 91%. Thanks again!

Chris