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Prolixia, I've not seen anything to indicate that's an issue. Ideally the temp sensors would be on the optics but I've not thought of a suitable way of doing that. Slipping the sensors under the heaters is the simplest solution I've found but if anyone comes up with a better way of doing that I'd be more than pleased. What I've done is a big step forward from no temp measurements at the heaters but still not ideal.
The only place I've had problems is with a 10" corrector plate, I don't manage to keep the whole thing dry in dewy conditions (but do use the hair dryer a lot less than others). I'd like to add the capability to do a boost on a specific channel, either via ASCOM or using the pot but it's not been a big enough issue to cause me to give it much attention. I suspect the problem is that not enough heat is transfered from the strap to the corrector plate the plate has some tape between it and the housing that supports it so I doubt that tweaking the heater control will fix that. Sometime I'll run the strap without PWM and see if it fixes the dew but that will need a cold winters night.
I'm checking temps every few seconds so turning off the heaters would need a change of approach and reduce the overall duty cycle for the heaters when you wanted them running full bore.
Bob
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