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Old 18-10-2012, 12:03 PM
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Hi Ken,

I know what you mean about the fitting of the box to the focuser, with my low profile 2" focuser adaptor and my fat fingers, its near impossible to tighten up the grub screws to hold the MPCC (which is effectively the 2" nosepiece of the camera) into the focuser and get a tight fit with the camera in a good alignment position.

Something else I have noticed, is the weight of the CPU heatsink and fan I have has made the crayford slip when the scope is holding the camera downwards. Not so much of an issue as I normally lock the Crayford when the focus is reached with the Bahtinov mask anyway, but a pain if I forget and slew the scope and the focuser goes "WHUMP" out of its tube to its end stops. Scared the crap out of me when it happened and I wondered why I had no stars all of a sudden.....

I need to seal up my chamber a bit better to get some more performance, my AC adapator for the camera tends to take about 4 degrees off my 11.8 measured from an inactive camera, but at least its stable, even if the drop isnt as much as I would like.

I have resurfaced my box with new 13mm foam from spotlight so its looks much schmicker now, and seals better on the corners and edges. Although I havent loaded it on the scope yet and tried it out since.

I might take some shots tonight of the new skinned box and post them here, it is a pretty little thing now. Less bulky and purdy.

Cheers

Chris
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