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Old 29-08-2012, 01:33 PM
I.C.D (Ian)
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Wattle Ponds via Singleton
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Originally Posted by Waxing_Gibbous View Post
That's a good point. I run mine off a Celestron Powertank (basically a truck battery with a night-light) and it'a normally fine.
We only have 2 phase mains here, so turning on the kettle adversely affects the mount; .
It's just very frustrating that it should "fail to proceed" after giving such great results for such a long time.
Peter the 12v /17v I am using a 12volt laptop power supply (best $70 spent)the good thing about it is even if the main battery voltage drops to 9/10 volts the power supply will still put out 12/ 15 volts and keep the mount working.
My observatory is solar powered with one 80 watt panel and 3 6volt 200ah batterys it run,s every thing laptop,mount,camera lights and fans.


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