I just used an in-line power meter on my truck's block heater to make sure the heater is working. My 'Kill-a Watt' power meter is cheap like Borscht, plasticky electronics and the display appears to be the normal backlit display like the Nexstar hand control, but it has been displaying...
8) Dew Heater Controller (0xbb) - 1.1.1270 9) Mount Lights (0xbf) - 1.1.16418 Something for the next version.. adjust the horizontal spacing? platini likes this #209platini Vostok 1 topic starter Posts:187 Joined:10 Jan 2016 Posted11 November 2022 - 10:19 PM ...
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You must have one of those custom "heated" Non-heater dew shields... Cause on my non-heated dew shield, I can't "let the Dew Heater run" ... Sure you can ... you take the dew shield off and cap the scope which as Mike said you can't do if you've bought the combination he...
2022-02-28 19:06:17.073 -08:00 (Connection) Attempting to power on dew heater IF present 2022-02-28 19:06:17.604 -08:00 (MountService) Mount service #1 not started or already shutdown 2022-02-28 19:06:17.604 -08:00 (Connection) Searching for Dew Heater ...
In my particular case I recently installed the new Celestron Dew Heater Ring and updated the firmware so as to control and monitor that via CPWI or just the hand controller and had not used the scope since until a club event last Friday and I got the infamous error codes. Tried another ...
Interesting you mention dew shield/heater. I was just looking at some yesterday. I'm not sure that it's required but certainly get one if necessary. At this location our relative humidity is really low, generally around 20%. It's really rare to have frost or wet grass(summer). Do you...
When you have a few cables (in my case Starsense, CCD usb, CCD cooling power... and possibly autoguide, dew shield power) the tail up of the Celestron wifi adapter IS in the way when the scope moves around, since it is stationary on the mount and cable move around it ...