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Qhy8l
My new QHL8Y arrived yesterday an today I fitted the cables, connected it to my telescope, duct taped the two power units to the telescope and balanced the mount.
Started Nebulosity on my laptop and plugged in the usb. All good,Nebulosity saw the camera and connected to it. So I shot a pseudo dark. It worked.
Despite the usual new gear curse tonight will be clear, albeit full moon.
So far two questions:-
1) How do you adjust the cooling power?
2)
My Canon connected to the laptop via a 5 metre USB extension cable. This cable is folded up to the required length. A two metre cable would suffice.
The QHY fails to connect via this long extension cable ( it worked,as above when the camera was connected to the laptop).
Would a shorter replacing the 5 metre cable with a 1.8 metre cable allow the QHY to connect or is a 12 volt powered USB hub required?
It would be a neater installation (and cheaper) with the shorter cable.
Either way a delay in supply will have to be tolerated.
Peoples experience? May be Marc can shed some light as he has used this camera on his Mewlon.
Chris
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