Hi everyone.
Getting close now to the final installation.
I have everything wired up now, appart from the wires on the scope, which I'll do in the coming days, so for the next week or two, I'll let it run to sort out any issues that may arise.
The pictures show;
- The roof motor with 24v backup batteries
- the PC which will sit at the base of the mount, on the box is a USB SSD for periodic backups using Acronis software
- one of the enclosures with a couple of raspberry PI computers, and a couple of relays for roof closure redundancies.
- roof position sensors and a toggle switch so that the fans and dehumidifier can only operate if the roof is shut.
- Power supply equipment.
- an enclosure with solid state relays for remote power switching. Below them is the interactive astronomy sky roof hardware. To the right of that in the small enclosure is the 4g modem.
- then the fusses and bus bar enclosure.
- on the right of that is the enclosure with the IP switches. Prety self explanatory, turns on and off the gear, it's programmable and scriptable. In here is also some relays that are switched by the outputs from the modem, which is always on, so I'm able to power cycle the solid state relays to power cycle equipment. On the front of this enclosure is a simple ZWO 120 camera to view the state if the relays remotly for diagnostic purposes. Also there is a web cam on the front of the other box to monitor a relay which tels me if there is 240v from the 240v relay and therefore to the roof motor. Closure of the roof is quite important
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- the other 2 enclosures are for the DVR for the IP cameras, and for the Ethernet hubs. I made my own Ethernet cables to get exact lengths.
- lastly there is a programmable controller. Amongst the many things this can do, I'll use it for turning on the fans and dehumidifier based on humidity and temperature readings. It'll then send me an email, and log the days readings.
Afyer a few more paint touchups... I reckon it'll be on the truck in 2 weeks, on it's way to the site.
Thanks for reading if you got this far