In general, it's not necessary to do more than connect your AC adapters into outlets which are closely coupled, as on a power strip. All AC adapters with two-prong plugs, and most with three prong

It’s important to understand what you want to protect. The first thing is people – that’s not with a surge suppressor, but with a GFI protected outlet. My GUESS is your outlet already is,

Steve Reilly wrote: It's been a year, but what I got was a NUC8i5BEH kit, 500gb Samsung 860EVO, and 32gb Crucial memory. Total cost was $595 at the time, for all name brand stuff. I know parts

Question for the power experts. I'd like to start learning how to use my rig but I don't want to fry it or my children in the process. I have a refractor, cooled cmos camera, OAG with guide camera,

I use a MiniX Mini PC that works well. The specific model I use is no longer made, but they have a newer one: Amazon.com: MINIX NEO J50C-8SE, 8GB/240GB Intel Pentium Silver Mini PC with Windows 10 Pro

Thats easy enough to do. Once you have everything connected and the mount powered on, you can use APJog (installs with the V2 Driver package) to connect and move the mount around.

I’ve been using a 2021 i5 Mac Mini (headless) mounted to the pier running windows 10 for some time. I think I paid like $250 (used price) a while back. It’s got a built in power supply but in

Thank you Bill, I think if I can get the mount to move via PC tonight I'll consider the day a success. Haha Tom -- CN: HasAnyoneSeenMyNeblua

Backyard Nikon is super user friendly. Another good one is APT (Astrophotography Tool). I would go with the most user friendly package for now and worry about advanced features and stuff later. As an

Thank you Bill, Yes, this helps. I just emailed Daleen about APCC and APPM so I'll wait to hear back. I believe Backyard Nikon allows this extra functionality you were speaking about; really the DSLR

Luca, Thank you for your reply. I'll give the USB connection a try. I think getting feedback like this helps. Best, Tom -- CN: HasAnyoneSeenMyNeblua

You dont need that box in the first 3 photos. That is not provided with the mount anyhow and its intention is to convert physical serial devices to a USB output. It is not necessary. On the CP4, you

Tom, I have no idea what that Edgeport box is. My guess it’s a USB to Ethernet converter to go around the distance limitation of the USB protocol but then you would need 2 of them. One thing is for

Thanks for the feedback. Using the links below it seems a similar NUC built with about the same configuration is still in the original ballpark. Main difference I saw was the larger SSD choices being

Hello All, First, I want to thank everyone for helping me through myquestion on Park positions. As for the posts on Cloudy Nights… So this 1100GTO w/ AE and CP4 is my first mount. I bought itfrom

The noise to signal ratio over there is very high. 🙂 -- Dean Jacobsen Astrobin Image Gallery - https://www.astrobin.com/users/deanjacobsen/

Actually, I have found the forums there to be very helpful. Just need to watch out for the trolls.

Bill, > The reason I ask is, I have made the mistake of forgetting about license renewals until I needed to go image > one night and had to deal with that. Not APCC of course, but since then I

Ray, so much misinformation is to be found all over the Cloudy Nights forums. Best to avoid them "like the plague". Fernando

Thanks Ray. Mine isnt up until January, so I will wait until then or whenever the update is made. The reason I ask is, I have made the mistake of forgetting about license renewals until I needed to