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Originally Posted by DavidTrap
Just in case you're wondering what happened in the end with this camera,
My electronic tech friend changed the capacitors, cleaned the corrosion on some tracks, replaced a connector and applied a conformal coating.
Working completely without schematics, he put an oscilloscope on the circuit involving the dodgy capacitors - when an exposure was triggered in the software, there was a voltage drop on that circuit. That voltage drop disappeared once the capacitors had been replaced.
I reinstalled the camera in the observatory and did some testing last night and thankfully it appears to be working normally again.
Fingers crossed we get a few more years of service from the camera.
DT
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Hi David,
That is great news.
I'm an electronics technician.
The factory must have used poor quality capacitors.
Sometimes companies get duped buying fake brand name electrolytic capacitors.
cheers
Allan