"Jeffrey D. Gortatowsky" wrote: Actually, I was wondering if there is a some kind of regulator that could be put on the circuit that would guarantee that the voltage does not drop below 12 (for some

All these power problems... you'd figure Roland, Marge, and Chuck would have long since run into all this and solved the sensitivity if it's truely very sensitive. This 'sounds' like a problem that

Steve Leikind wrote: I think someone already responded to this on. N-Polar alignment is fastest for me. In the "objects" menu, there's a "recal" button. I GOTO a bright star near the object of

I have a 90AH deep cycle battery and man is it heavy! I plan on using this for just the 400GTO. I want to get a 100-140AH deep cycle for Laptop, CCD and Dew heater. The 100-140's are even heavier! I

Steve Reilly wrote: I use that setup, w/o the NGFS but with the CFW8 filter wheel. I use two 18 lb. counterweights, but the scope does not quite balance in dec, so i have ordered a counterweight set

Steve- My experience with the 400GTO, so far, is meager. Just the same, here is what I can tell you: The same knob increases the altitude and decreases it. I have found that you can loosen the

Terry and group, This is exactly what I do--two batteries, one 60AH deep cycle just for the scope and one 100AH deep cycle for PC and Camera. Putting a dew heater together with the scope on one

on 6/27/00 7:00 PM, Terry Johnson at tjohnson@... wrote: Let's see... You will be the one with the 50ft Winnebago complete with 10' automated dome and hydraulic ram to "set your pier",

Dan, great desciption of the problem you are having. I have found that theAP control box cannot take an electrical surge whatsoever. Any device that youpower up after you have already powered up the

-snip If it is like my older AP 400, yes, that adjustment bolt only pushes. Loosen the bolt on the side and unscrew the knobbed bolt in the back (south side of the mount). If you have the counter

I've done a fair amount of work with a similar setup: using a C9.25" and AP 600 instead. Had a lot of success with the combination; let me know if you have any question. I've also used the NGF-S on

Just joined the group while waiting for the call on the mount. Thought I'd check out the posts for info. I will be using my C-11, NGFs focuser with digital readout and ST-8 CCD camera. Anyone using

DSV will work find with Windows 2000, but durring install you will see some messages about certain files that are already present on the windows 2000 machine. Accept the current file, ie: do not

54 Gig, wow! SCSI hard drives will have to come down even more dramatically in price if I'm going to get that much storage in my home PC ;-) I went with the 18G SCSI 160 too, but since I'm not much

You're quite right. My previous system was a dual boot Win95/WinNT with separate OS partitions and shared applications. Unfortunately, this prevented me from using NTFS. Since hard drives have come

Thanks for the info, Gus. I've thought long and hard about the dual boot option too. The classic trick is to have separate O/S partitions and a common partition for shared applications. It sounds

I talked with Charles about it and he said it should work fine unless you have more than one partition, in which case he needs to do a workaround for you if Win2K and DSV aren't going in the C:\

Hello All, Does anyone have any experience with DSV on Windows 2000 Professional? I've got some new PC hardware on the way and I'm thinking of going that route with the O/S. The alternate plan is

This was posted to the other group, please send responses to Max also. Derek Has anyone been able to park their AP GOTO and have TPoint and TheSky still work? The TPoint solution is lost once I

Stephen, Thanks! I would love more details. on your setup an modifications. Do you have any photos? Fee free to email me privately. That is unless anyone else needs this information. Thanks