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Originally Posted by LewisM
Never used a QHY5-II, but I never could get a QHY 5 to EVER be recognised by my computer running 7. XP, yes, after a LOT of trial and tribulations, but NEVER on 7, despite doing EVERYTHING QHY says and the user groups.
I also found it interferes with Atik drivers, and it was being recognised as some Atik product that I did not even have - and STILL could not connect to it - the red light NEVER came on.
And yet, the Orion version I never had an issue with. Really odd (I assume the Orion Starshoot autoguider is a QHY5 - could be wrong).
QHY's software is a little peculiar to put it mildly, but for the price, IF you get it to work, well...
Good luck. Failing that, try the Orion Starshoot.
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Thanks Lewis . I intermittently experienced the same problems you highlighted with my QHY5. I got that annoyed with it I gave it away and purchased the QHY5L-II. From my understanding the difference with the Orion version is that the USB driver and camera firmware are not written by QHY. Two years ago I spent about a month writing a direct show application to read the QHY5 using the QHY5 WDM driver. I developed it using an el cheapo web cam. Both my 32 and 64 bit apps worked liked a charm with the cheap web cam. . I then loaded the QHY5 WDM drivers and disaster hit. The QHY5 was detected as being plugged in when it wasn't with the 32 bit app and it wasn't detected with the 64 bit app. Conclusion , some very serious windows USB compatibility problems. I emailed QHY got one reply acknowledging the problem and then it disappeared into a black hole.
Rob