[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

The FLI Proline 16803 has two download speeds--the fast one at 8MHz which is lighting fast and the slower 1MHz speed. FLI warns that 8MHz is noisier, so I checked this. In the graph attached the left hand plots are 8MHz downloads and the rest are the 1MHz. Eyeballing the graphs suggests that the average noise goes down from around 12.5 ADU in the 8 MHz case to about 10 ADU in the one MHz case--a reduction of 20%. This indicates to me that 1MHz should definitely be the speed of choice--obvious of course, but it's nice to see agreement with one's expectations.
Geoff