Resolved New/Old 16803

Yes on the AM radio. Used one back in the CB radio days to find a power pole that was arcing.

I currently (!) use 3 Tripp-Lite UPSs to run everything except heavy electric motor(s). We have usually good grid power but we get "blips" for usually less than a second.
They can wreck electrical units so I keep the UPSs between expensive equipment and the grid. Just uncertain how clean of a wave they put out. A few years back every thing was "modified square wave" and that didn't work so well. Don't know what they do now.
If I knew how to use my oscilloscope better I would take a look at the output.

 

Yes they are all plugged into the same circuit. I do have several circuits around the warm room I can plug into, but they all use the same breaker panel box.
Which part would you like a picture(s) of?
On the Tripp Lites, I have one for the AC lines up to the under the floor DC power supplies at the observatory. I have one to power the MaxDome box.
I have one to power the two desktop computers and 3 monitors.
But I have all three Tripp Lites plugged in to the same outlet via a surge protection box.

 

I get a bit obsessive......
I don't really use all the power that I have....mostly.
But I tried to run a vacuum cleaner in the observatory and it threw one of the Tripp Lites into overload.

I pulled another 120v piece of Romex to run "heavy motors".

 

Yes indeed.
Another thing that doesn't go over too well is a heat gun for heat shrink (and taking paint off). So now I have one circuit for just doing heavy stuff.

The 3 Tripp Lites plugged into the Isobar.
Just a computer sitting on top of them.
Is this the picture you wanted?

 

I'll get on it.
Might have a couple already.

 

If you go to this page you can see a bunch of stuff.
The last two pictures would help maybe a little.
http://www.section8observatory.com/OB_Const.html

 

The warm room is done unless I have to fix something.
Main computer is under the table on this end. You can see the Tripp Lites



The power and data conduits go out and come up under the observatory
Power conduit on the left, data conduit on the right. The under the floor power supplies are in the louvered box



The power wires come up from the floor (in the flex conduit) and go into the MaxDome boxes.
Also the new Romex run goes up to the box closest to the floor to juice the dome motor.
There's close up pictures of the Maxdome boxes in the "Run away dome" thread


The data wires and DCV wires come up inside the steel pier.
The DCV wires come out to the barrier strips mounted on the plywood piece mounted on the pier.
The USB extension box is the one with the green face on the plywood plate. Also RS 232 runs etc.



If I can answer questions, ask.

 

1) Power in a split loom cable going to the RCOS controller box (12vdc).
2) RCOS telescope control box (focus, rotator, fan control etc)
3) Space heater for when it gets real cold outside and I want to work on things. Don't use it too much. It's connected to the new Romex 120vac run

Everything plugged in to the 4 plugin box on the wall is 120vac device that is the direct run (no Tripp Lite Box) to the breaker panel in the warm room.

There are 2 power supply barrier strips that supply 12vdc and 24vdc.
The 12vdc barrier strip is on the far upper right on the plywood plate and has a sort of gray looking plastic cover over it.
The 24vdc barrier strip is on the bottom of the plywood plate (next to the green Icron box) and supplies the Icron USB extender box and I have a temporary run to the FLI camera which will go away when the Sbig camera gets back.
The mount has a 48vdc power supply and it only runs to the mount. That PS is located down in the power supply box under the floor.

 

Just thought I would check in and see if you guys have found anything with the camera?

 

What ever happened between when it left here and came back, it sure looks better now.

 

OMG
It was the cable that hooks the STX guider to the camera.
As I reassembled it I took some quickie exposures.
Camera worked fine.
CFW worked fine.
When it came to hooking up the STX autoguider it went back to disaster. Changed out the little HDMI cable to one I had and it worked fine.

 

It came with the camera setup I bought.
What doesn't kill you .....hurts.