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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Alex,
I have owned several QSI's for quite a few years. One of them has never been re-gassed and was sold to friend of mine before I got the very same camera you are inquiring about. It has never missed a beat and he is very happy with it.
My 683WSG-8 did have a power board problem and had to be serviced. Unfortunately in Portugal and it came back still with a problem and had to go back again.
At a school I did a recent observatory installation, I installed a 683WSG-8 which has provided good service so far. No issues reported at all.
I had two 660WSG-8's and both had registration problems for the filter wheel. It might have been a batch where the problem existed. Others seem to have no issues reported in recent years.
I still own an 12"RC and would not put that together with a 5.4 um pixels (such as that on the 683 camera). The image scale is too small and the errors will be very obvious, especially guiding and mount errors.
My recommendation is to look for something with 9um pixel sizes.
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Thanks Paul I really appreciate you sharing your experience and recommendation.
I have been able to address things a little better in the last two hours and now think I just need to back off and think everything thru...and learn much more like working things out myself rather than relying on the Bintel guide, read more about things... I have to think what do I want to do really and the more I think about it for a start I like refractors just because they don't really make demands that I can't manage...and really I can occupy myself for a while fixing the roll off..I need a ramp for example...today I was able to slip away and buy a second winch and some pulleys ..just fixing that will give me something to do and more time to think clearer.
Just the reading I have done in the last two hours has me more understanding of what is involved...I really appreciate your input on the camera ..thanks again.
Alex