Yep, I might give it away till the nosepiece turns up and I can get a filter on it. What's coming out of it is not easy to deal with, check this mess out. Might organise a shield for the end of the tube as well.
Pete, Yes it's tied up with antiblooming. I've been told they have everything set on a hair trigger to keep sensor sensitivity as high as possible. Others got around it by using normal download speed instead of slow. I guess I'll try that but it means new gain/offset/bias and darks