I have been having problems with my guide camera and recently opened it up and did some testing and am seeing something related to what BillF is...
I posted earlier about this problem where Maxim throws a dialog box saying error 17 which in this case is a problem with the guide camera shutter....
Have you checked the positioning of the pick-off?
Is there any progress on this AO-X problem? I'm running the latest version of Maxim and still have the same problem.
More experimenting found a couple more tidbits about the AO-X. I finally thought to turn off all multi-threading (I had been running with guide...
More experimenting last night and a couple more discoveries. Ensuring pre-flash is NEVER used for any kind of exposure (pointing updates, guide...
I did some testing last night and have discovered that I can influence the ability to recover from the AO 'guide start fade' problem by changing...
I ran the new build last night and Maxim threw a dialog saying something about an CCD error - unfortunately I couldn't read the code on the tiny...
The latest build (9) seems to have resolved the issue with the filter wheel problem connecting to the camera. I still see the same issue with the...
I am running a firmware and driver that is newer than the latest released version. Adam R. at Diffraction installed it on my system a while...
It's interesting - I've found that I can get 6.08 to run the AO all night with the exception of the first subframe. I still see the usual problem...
I experimented with this last night and as you mention, after I manually re-start the AO-X on the first sub, it seems to work for later subs....
I am experiencing what sounds like the same problem. I'm running an AO-X, STXL-11002 and FW8G using MaximDL and ACP. It seems related to using...
I have what sounds like the same problem - the AO-X is able to acquire and track the guide star just fine until the main camera starts an exposure...
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