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Old 09-06-2014, 05:59 PM
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Yeah it's still fresh in my mind, still experimenting but been getting some interesting results! Very exciting times

The Cool Edge basically goes in the hole opened up when you remove the Fastar secondary mirror. This is fine if you want to cool it down quickly at the start of a session, but you have to remove it and put the secondary mirror back in place before you can do any imaging The Tempest system also do a secondary fan, same problem obviously. The more interesting ones are the Tempest fans that replace the side vents on the Edge HD tubes, as these are permanently mounted (it's only 2 little screws) and can be on while you're imaging, drawing a constant stream of air past the back of your mirror. As I've found out, just be careful if the air is moist and the temperature dropping as it'll draw moist air in there too and I've had my corrector mist up on the inside maybe I should have just had the dew heater up higher

I'll be interested on what you find for the powermate... at the moment, I use a Clicklock visual back with Televue 2" to 1.25" adapter before the 2.5x powermate... but my little camera is only the size of a 1.25" plossl
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