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Originally Posted by Atmos
<--- Single  Still looking for that astronomy addicted wife  |
A rare find that will be!
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Originally Posted by glend
And i am divorced, thankfully.
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Sorry to hear that Glen.
Up until now I've been using a cheap Lenovo laptop for image acquisition, but I've now purchased an
ASRock BeeBox. Reviews all seem positive. Comes with 4x USB 3.0 ports, uses up to 3A of power and comes with Windows 10 out of the box. A lot of those little PCs don't come with an OS which will cost a couple of hundred extra for a legit copy.
The BeeBox I got only has 32Gb storage, but I intend to write a little application to monitor the filesystem for new images and move them across the network to a 2TB drive. Only cost $325, so pretty happy with that.
I'm considering a
RIGrunner 4005i for remote power control. Not really sure if it's a good idea to run all this gear off the same battery though, even if it is a monster 220Ah. I'm currently running most of it off the one battery (except my auto focuser), but I'll be adding in the new PC and an automated OTA cap / flat field panel as well.