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Help, CP5 won't power on!
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AaronW
Hi all,
I am having a mild panic attack. I spent last night imaging and this morning after closing out the session, I left the rig untouched all day. Great weather here in Southern California. As I began setup this evening I noticed that the red light on the CP5 was gone, and it appears to be completely unresponsive. I've tried swapping out power chords but to no avail. I now have the CP5 in my office with its AC/DC adapter running from my house's AC power outlet into the 12V DC port and still nothing. Any ideas or tests I should run??
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Aaron, do you have a voltmeter that you can test the output of your AC/DC power adapter to make sure it hasn’t failed?
-- Dean Jacobsen Astrobin Image Gallery - https://www.astrobin.com/users/deanjacobsen/
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AaronW
Can't seem to find mine...
On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 8:48 PM Dean Jacobsen <deanjacobsen@...> wrote: Aaron, do you have a voltmeter that you can test the output of your AC/DC power adapter to make sure it hasn’t failed?
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AaronW
Failed AC/DC adapter...is that something that happens often?
On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 8:48 PM Dean Jacobsen <deanjacobsen@...> wrote: Aaron, do you have a voltmeter that you can test the output of your AC/DC power adapter to make sure it hasn’t failed?
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Well, it is something than can happen. I don't know how often it happens. :-) The good thing is that it is an easy fix. Do you have a 12V DC power supply that you can use instead so you don't lose a night of imaging?
-- Dean Jacobsen Astrobin Image Gallery - https://www.astrobin.com/users/deanjacobsen/
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AaronW
Sadly, no. I image from my backyard using the house's AC power. I'm not even sure how I could test the adapter with a voltmeter. One end of the adapter has the anderson powerpoles that came with the Mach2. Hopefully the issue isn't something more serious than this...
On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 9:07 PM Dean Jacobsen <deanjacobsen@...> wrote: Well, it is something than can happen. I don't know how often it happens. :-) The good thing is that it is an easy fix. Do you have a 12V DC power supply that you can use instead so you don't lose a night of imaging?
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My bad. I thought you were saying that you tested the AC/DC adapter and it had failed.
Plug the AC/DC adapter in, set the voltmeter to DC and touch the voltmeter probes on the metal contacts in the PowerPole output. If the adapter is working you should get a voltage reading on the voltmeter. -- Dean Jacobsen Astrobin Image Gallery - https://www.astrobin.com/users/deanjacobsen/
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AaronW
Got it - will give that a shot tomorrow if I can find a voltmeter. Thanks!
On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 9:26 PM Dean Jacobsen <deanjacobsen@...> wrote: My bad. I thought you were saying that you tested the AC/DC adapter and it had failed.
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Roland Christen
We can send you a new supply, call the office and let them know that your power supply has failed. Meanwhile you can run it from a small 12 volt battery.
Roland Christen
-----Original Message-----
From: AaronW <aaron.wilhelm@...> To: main@ap-gto.groups.io Sent: Tue, May 31, 2022 11:29 pm Subject: Re: [ap-gto] Help, CP5 won't power on! Got it - will give that a shot tomorrow if I can find a voltmeter. Thanks!
On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 9:26 PM Dean Jacobsen <deanjacobsen@...> wrote:
My bad. I thought you were saying that you tested the AC/DC adapter and it had failed. -- Roland Christen Astro-Physics
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