#1  
Old 01-06-2017, 12:57 PM
glend (Glen)
Registered User

glend is offline
 
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Lake Macquarie
Posts: 7,033
QHY colour filter wheel fault

My one year old QHY CFW2-S filter wheel developed a serious fault, it would not select position 2 or 3. Other positions selected fine, but its only a 5 position wheel so it significantly restricts what i could do. Initially i thought it might be a SGP definition problem, but that checked out fine. I contacted Cyclops Optics from whom i bought it, and Robin tried to sort it out with QHY. I was asked to download the Audrino loader, upgrade the firmware, and try using a new serial port utility. The combination of the serial port utility and the QHY No Camera ASCII codes finally got it moving. I was able to tell it to move to the correct positions: Pos 1 is ASCII 0, Pos 2 is ASCII 1, Pos 3 is ASCII 2, etc. When i took it back to SGP it worked ok again. I upgraded SGP version and the Filter Wheel ASCOM driver and went through it all again, looks ok now.
Weird.

Last edited by glend; 01-06-2017 at 02:01 PM.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Thread Tools
Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT +10. The time is now 06:54 PM.

Powered by vBulletin Version 3.8.7 | Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Advertisement
Bintel
Advertisement
Testar
Advertisement