Well the big CCD and CFW finally arrived last week and I can't wait to get'em out under the stars!
So far I have only played with them on the dinning table ie installing filters, doing dark library, sussing out new quirks and differences in image callibration etc from the previous PL11002.
So far a couple of notes:
A big unit when matted with CFW-5-7
More hot pixels than the PL11002 but otherwise very smooth darks.
Lots of cosmic ray hits visible in a dark frame - will require more complex processing than the cosmic ray free PL11002 chip.
Great cooling: tested to 58C below ambient, woohoo! and it gets there fast even from +24C takes only about 5 min
Fast download: 4sec for full 16.8m frame at 8Mhz, 20sec at 1Mhz selectable download speeds.
Just like me
... the chip looks biiiig and sexy
Can't access RBI flush feature yet as I use Astroart4 and to date this feature is only available in MAXIM DL but will be available in Astroart soon
. From all reports though in most cases RBI flushing is probably not necessary in practise but we will see..?
Here are some photos, you will find more info and links under the images when you open them:
http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/proline16803
Now bring on the clear skies!
Mike