[Leo.G (Leo)]

First off HUGE improvement with the cooling and secondly, my intent in your other thread was never to try and turn you against your idea. I have played with Peltier coolers for years with other electronics and seen first hand when things don't go right.
I have Peltier cooling on a former Queensland government Elbex speed camera, an AMAZING quality CCD camera with a large sensor which I used for some astro stuff till I got sick of RS485-whatever adapters and running coaxial cable for the signal which meant capture card in a device to capture the images. Image quality however was amazing and the camera had full pan and tilt control doable with an xbox controller.




That's a heck of a difference with the cooling but as I mentioned in your other thread just be very wary of the condensation, it ruins cameras. If it gets into the contacts for the CMOS, likely a bigger problem with marking of the sensor if it gets on the front, maybe.

Your unit is still a sealed camera with internal condensation a slight possibility but not a given like the thing I have here.

I have no idea where the Desiccant goes in the pro cooled ZWO cameras that take it and I'm unaware of any desiccant pack going into my old cooled camera (I can't for the life of me remember which camera it is) but I still think of swapping out the original CCD for a later sensor and utilising the original case and cooling, I just can't bring myself to butcher anything of it's quality.
I may look into it one day if I get a camera with larger pixel size more suitable to my longer focal length telescopes.