[g__day (Matthew)]

I finally received my second IDAS light suppression filter so I could try my new camera on my FLT110. All worked great for an hour until my guide camera played havoc.

First there were multiple PC crashes - instant death - not even a Blue Screen of Death moment that I could catch (seen that before). It all came back to the Meade DSI II Pro Mono camera not liking either a 5 metre direct cable nor a 1 metre Meade cable (and I know they use the rare high current USB 2 cables) into an 33 feet (weird length) active extension cable.

When I directly plugged the DSI into my normal PC using only the Meade cable all ran fine. Plug this cable into a (fairly long) active extension cable and there are at least two errors detected at the Windows Device Manager level - both the Hub (error 43) and the DSI driver (device won't start - code 10).

So it appears I need to find a 5 metre cable the Meade camera likes.

I thinking I could run a cable to a powered hub ($53 buys me a 13 port, 5Volt, 4Amp (wow) USB2 device) that I could extend to the PC with a normal extender cable. Does this sound like the most reliable way to connect the Meade to the PC? In essence I need about 4 metres of cable to reach the PC from the OTA and I think my challenge is the Meade device wants a lot of current - more than a normal USB2 cable into a USB2 port will deliver. So if I use the supplied 1 metre Meade USB2 cable straight into high powered hub is that the most likely option to get more reliability from my guide camera?