Hi. I have a 16 inch Meade telescope and upon that I have a SBIG STL-11000CM camera. I was in my observatory about 3 days ago to do a new Tpoint model. I connected the camera, but all pictures was just black and white lines (I attach picture) I went again yesterday to find out, what could be wrong. Yesterday I could not get any connection to the camera. I use SkyX 64 - and I have chosen SBIG Large format camera. I then went to SBIG Driver checker and updated the drivers, but the result was the same (I got no connection to the camera). I am using Windows 10 together with the SkyX 64 program and driver checker (attach pic) What will the best be to find out what is wrong Best regards Knud
Given the symptoms, I suspect that one of the camera's internal power supplies has failed. Unfortunately these cameras are no longer serviceable as all of the parts have gone obsolete.
Although I think @Doug is correct, there are a couple of other possibilities: 1. The SkyX ships with an old copy of a 64-bit SBIGudrv.dll Look for it here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Software Bisque\TheSkyX Professional Edition\TheSky64 replace it with the version contained in this zip file: https://cdn.diffractionlimited.com/down/sbigudrv-win-x64-5.1.1.0.zip Unzip the file. Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Software Bisque\TheSkyX Professional Edition\TheSky64 Rename sbigudrv.dll to sbigudrv.old Copy the sbigudrv.dll from the zip file into this folder. Try again. 2. The old STL cameras don't have much memory so the image is downloaded as it is digitized. This means that the USB1.1 connection to the camera should not be shared with other devices. It should not go through a hub, extender, or be shared with other devices on a hub such as focuser, mount, dew controller, etc. It should have its own connection directly to a USB port on the back of the computer. Usually this results in scrambled images or missing data, not the pattern shown in your picture. If something changed in your setup, that can cause problems. Perhaps try a second computer, and use CCDOps. I'm pretty sure the camera has failed.
Dear Doug and Colin Thank you very much for your response. I also think that this camera has played its role and it has been a very good camera that I for at atleast 10 years has been very happy for. I have now taken the sbigudrv.dll file down now and when i come to the observatory to night I will copy that to the program. It is really worth trying. But both - thank you very much for tour help. Knud
Dear Doug and Colin Thanks for your advice. I tried your suggestion out Doug. It changed the situation. Now I could connect to the telescope, which I could not before, but the picture was the same - I tried different setting, but the picture was useless. Black and white line in diagonals. So I think you are right - the days are over for this camera. But thank you very much for your assistance. Knud
