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Originally Posted by BMO
Dear fellow forum readers,
......Does anyone really know what is going on with SBIG and the sudden "lack of choice"?
Hasen.
Blue Mountains Observatory
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SBIG were bought out by company called Aplegen a couple of years ago.
With the new CEO, much of the product range was culled and new products introduced. Production was moved to northern California, but that proved problematic. Production of cameras being returned to Santa Barbara to keep a tighter reign on QC.
While companies like FLI/Apogee can give you a TrueSense KAF1001 chip, I doubt they actually build many. The reality is: there is virtually no market for 24 micron pixel cameras.
SBIG actually only have one self -guide model now, the STX.
Guiding has been migrated ahead of, and integrated into filter-wheels in all other models...they offer way-better delta-T (up to 60degrees C below ambient), frame buffers, USB plus ethernet control and fast read-up speeds...frankly, they make the legacy models look dated.
SBIG's current push it to forther improve their guiding technology advantage by offering differential-guiding and AO-X products by about mid year, if not sooner.
Cheers
Peter