Bird started it with the newts and the active peltier cooling......yours truly, followed suit......Asimov sooped up his cat cooler and Paul Haese adapted the cat cooler with a peltier cooler.
Paul also has just drilled a little 12mm hole in the back of the SCT (hands of a surgeon, i hear you say) and attached one end of the little dual temp sensor you can buy from Dick Smith.
Abley helped by mate Peter, the system is up and running and the mirror has just gone below ambient after three hours cooling.
Started out at 30+ degrees 3 hours ago and with the help of the peltier powered cat cooler, the back of the mirror has got to 22.8, with the ambient at 23.
I am very interested in how this will revolutionize planetary imaging for sct's.
Bird has lead the world (to the best of my knowledge) in terms of controling the mirror temps, and now the SCT's have been added to the mix!
Ok, who's rcx400 is ready for a test drill?????????
I will link to the images as they become available
