[Ramius (Bill)]

Hi,
I have bought a cheap battery station. 360 watt/hours and pure sine inverter and have run it a couple of nights but using A/C and power bricks. I have just made some cables and was measuring outputs to check polarity and I am getting 16v on the 12v output. In all other ways it is working great.

Clearly its using Li-ion batteries and at max charge four in series gives around 16v. I was about to plug this into a zwo camera which is spec'd to 15v. I doubt it would have fried it but I am not going to try my luck. The AZ-EQ5 mount is spec'd to 16v so less of a concern but still marginal.

The mount manual states overvoltage could fry it. Anyone know if the ZWO camera is protected?

I could stick with the inefficient and bulky a/c power brick but I am a bit concerned I will be in a hurry one night and connect it to the 12(ie 16)V outlet.

I googled this with little luck and I know just enough to be dangerous so any advice appreciated.


Cheers
Bill