Firmware Rev 14 issues.

Any ideas why the hardware would fail in firmware 14 but none seen in firmware 8 on same wheel? That's the puzzling part on my end.

thanks for help in diagnosing this.

 

Ira, would love to connect. I sent you a private message.

Greg

 

following. . . I'll be doing my own tests in mid-January, though with an AFW-10 single. -fs

 

Doug, Adam

I am wondering if I found a relevant issue to my problem using the upgraded firmware rev 14.

In doing some tests to get my scope and guider FOVI recalibrated after installing the inline filter holder, I noticed that there was a device that installs 30-45 seconds after all the other devices when I power on the system. I noticed a device install "chime" sound 30-45 sec after the group of chimes that sounds off almost immediately in the Windows 10 computer when I toggle on the power. I also noticed that if I did not get this late second chime, the camera would not connect and I got a filter wheel not accessible error when I tried to connect the camera in Maxim (version 6.3).

I went into device manager to see if I could identify which device manager was installing late and found that devices SBIG Camera A and SBIG Camera B installed immediately. Then after 30-45 seconds, a device called SBIG Camera installs. I also noted that I went from two entries of SBIG Composite Device to three after the SBIG Camera device installs.

I opened the SBIG Camera Device and saw that the Power Management "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" box was checked. I know that when I set up the system I turned all of those off, so that device looks "new" to me. Camera A and B were unchecked.

I'm running some other tests tonight so I don't want to try to update firmware today, but I am looking to see if there is any chance this might be related to the issues I have with firmware 14.

If not and it is some other hardware problem in the filter wheel, any ideas on what else I might do to diagnose the issue?

 

I updated my AC4040 without drama yesterday. The operation took the advertised 2 minutes to upload, showed the new version 14 in DL Config, then requested a camera power cycling. It required two power cycles as the first did not show the new version. But the camera did operate as expected all night, the AFW10 filter wheel movements were crisp as expected, and none of the prior reported problems were experienced. Looks like I won't be of much value in having the pleasure of contributing to working through the issues.

 

Thanks Colin. Very well was the source of my need to double power recycle. I'll be attentive to this in the future.

My session last night after my post was very uneventful relative to the firmware upgrade. However, tonights session that I'm just wrapping up started with Maxim throwing the same filter wheel not found error upon attempting to connect the camera. Additional attempts would produce hanging or the same missing FW message. Inspecting the Device Manager showed an error in loading the SBIG USB Driver. I reran the DL Config app and updated again to v14, and all was fine. Curious that this alternated over two nights of working then not. We will see what tomato brings,

 

Hi,

Its been a while since we connected on this issue. I wanted to see if there are any thoughts on how I can do some experiments to work out this issue I'm having with Rev 14. It seems that my situation was unique at the time and we never resolved things.

 

Thanks for the reply Adam. If there are any diagnostic experiments we can run, let me know. As the weather gets hotter here, the chip cooler will work harder so I'd really like to see if the new code can eliminate a some of the cooler noise I see.

 

Colin, thanks for the note. I will have some time next week to test this update. I will report back what I find.

 

Colin, I am running the previous version of DLAPI (the one issued before this latest release) and it runs with Firmware Rev 8 with no issues. I had issues with all other firmware revisions after 8 (the filter wheel would hang on first operation or sometime during an acquisition run). It sounds like I should install the new DLAPA 2.7.1.0 and verify operation with current firmware rev 8, and then install the latest rev 14 firmware to see if I get the same issues with the filter wheel hanging.

 

Colin, I installed the DLAPI update yesterday along with the 64bit ASCOM update. I went ahead and installed the Firmware 14 as well, which was hanging the ST7 filter wheel when I tried it previously. I ran through a quick exercise of filter changing with no issues and then ran and ACP sequence last night with 5 different filter acquisitions. I did not experience any filter wheel hangups. We have poor conditions this week here in AZ but I will try to run every night to keep verifying that the issue is resolved. So far so good.