Category: Equipment

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Mounting double scopes on the GM200HPS

The 120mm Esprit has been out of a job for too many months! It’s about time to mount the scope side-by-side with the C14 on the GM2000.

Combined weight of bth scopes & accessories would be around 40kg, which is still below the photographic load capacity of 50kg.

Using the trick with the table to de-mount the C14
Removed the Baader Losmandy 250mm dovetail clamp
Mounted the 10micron 4″ clamp the wrong way (should be 90° sideways for side-by-side mounting!
This is the correct way!
What it should become: side-by-side for the C14 (above, Baader 250mm Losmandy) and Esprit below

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Fixing my camera´s

Both the 2600MM and MC were out of order. The color camera was plain dead, the monochroome camera suffered from the infamous oil leak.

The new motherboard placed in the camera. It’s black-colored, while the old board was the classic green.

The mother board of the 2600mc was easily replaced. I used latex gloves to protect the electronics. The most tricky part as to insert the band connector, that links the board top the sensor electronics.

For the monochrome: it was opened and the oil was removed. I used the video from highpoint scientific as a guide. Everything went well and the sensor is clean again.

I stored the window cover is a plastick bag, to protect it from dust, but also to avoid that the moisture pads got saturated.
Here the oil leak is clearly seen.
The sensor pad was unscrewed and lifted, to get access to the oil-saturated thermal pad below it; This pad connects the sensor thermally to the cooling electronics. With the cotton swabs, it was easy to remove the excess oil.
The result: a clean sensor !!!!

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