Hi Geoff.
here you go..I had one of these but it cooled too much for the humidity up here...around 20°c below ambient caused condensation on the internal IRfilter.
Noise shouldn't become a problem the longer you image..more skyglow is the issue...if thats the case lower the ISO the longer your exposures....this will give higher signal to noise ratio.
here is where the cameras are.
http://www.centralds.net/en/index.htm
they still have my Helix image on the web site and great blokes to deal with.