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Old 17-12-2009, 08:00 PM
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Super cooling

I got out last night and did some image..?..YAY!!!!

I needed to do some dark frames for some short exposures I had done last night.

Well...unfortunately it's an oven like +33C in the dinning room isn't it - as per my digital thermometer

I thought oh well I'll give it try any way, so I set the chip temp to -35C which is the usual temperature I operate the camera at all year round and the temp I used last night. After 10min I came back to the dinning table and found the chip temp settled on -30.6 DOH!!!

Still, the camera was able to pull the chip down 63.6C from ambient - not bad huh?

...looks I'll have to wait until near midnight to get an ambient temp that will let me get down to -35C. I did consider putting the whole camera in the fridge buuuut...nahh I'll wait for the cool change

Gotta luv these FLI cameras

Mike
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