Chuckwagon wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:09 am
dalepenkala wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:35 pm
Hello Chuck,
Thanks again for your comments and dually noted! I have already unplugged everything so that only the camera is plugged into the usb hub. I need to see if I have a 15’ usb 3 cable and if I do I’ll be doing a test with that. Problem is I only have so much room and have to work within my limits. There is no way I’d be able to run the setup with a 15’ cable going from the camera thru the wall of the control room and then to the laptop. That said I plan to try it and see if that actually works. If it does then I’ll need to figure out a different way to connect to the laptop some how.
I do have a powered usb hub that I pulled out to give a try and see if that makes any difference too.
My hope is that it is a power issue as a couple have mentioned that to me that the 2600 does pull more power than my other cameras. Thats why I am going to give my ac power supply a go and see if that makes any difference.
I’ll keep everyone updated as I figure things out. I’m thankful to EVERYONE that has responded to try and help me!
Dale
Hi Dale,
I wouldn't be surprised if it's a power issue. Or if it's a need for a powered hub. Or if it's the extender cables. (Maybe they need a powered hub for this camera) There are a lot of variables. USB is convenient technology, but it's not always the most robust or predictable. It can be quite frustrating, especially when something works in one config but stops in another for no apparent reason. That's why I suggested starting with the bare minimum and adding more complexity as you go. I'm sure you'll get it sorted.
Cheers,
Chuck
Hello Chuck and Everyone that has helped!
Ok so here is an update on everything so far. This afternoon I went out in the observatory and went thru all my cords. I pulled everything out cleaned them (though they were not dirty) reinserted them just to go thru that process. Honestly I didn’t really see anything that stuck out but did it anyway. Like @chuckwagon had mentioned I pulled everything out of the usb hub and worked with just 1 plug at a time and connected the laptop.
Prior to doing that I pulled my battery and put a full charge on it. When I came in the other night I needed to charge it so put it on the charger until it was completely charged.
Once this was done I thru my solar filter on my esprit and gave it a test. I was pleasantly surprised that it didn’t disconnect when I slewed to some other place in the sky. That when it would always disconnect or lock up. So then I decided to plug in the EAF and give that a try. No issues and there was next to no delay when pulling buttons, Anyway I went back to the sun and everything was just the way that it normally worked. I took 3 quick sequences of the sun just to run something to test it. Well it worked. Ok so I did it a 2nd time with know issues.
I was quite happy as you can imagine and came in and waited for nighttime to give it a run with some deep sky tests and so far so good. It worked flawlessly and good enough to get my back spacing dialed in. Now I need to take flats and go after an object to see how everything performs.
Once I was happy with the i7 working I decided to give the i3 another go and surprisingly it worked fairly well. I think it would work just fine for dso imaging but when your taking a video in avi or ser format it drops 3/4 of the collected frames. When I was doing it with the sun this afternoon with the i7 it never dropped a frame so clearly the i7 has more steam to handle the 2 video formats.
I still have more work to do with this setup as I’m switching this optical system over to another AP1200 mount so I still need to add software and configure everything. Praying everything goes well that way!
I hope I don’t have to bother all of you again but if I run into any more issues I’ll be posting here but in the meantime I’d like to say thank you to everyone that chimed in on my thread to help me! Even if it was little things it all makes a difference!
Thanks!
Dale