Scott M Baker wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've just started using my 416XT again, after about a 6 month lapse, and
> I have a few questions. From what I've heard, the recent versions of
> PictorView are reputed to work without too much trouble. I upgraded to
> 6.43, the current (non-beta) version at meade's website. I'm operating
> in SCSI mode, LX200, Pentium-90 PC.
>
> My questions:
>
> 1) The temperature readouts don't seem to be working the way I remember
> them. There are two readouts: the first one starts at 0 and starts to
> count up as I operate the camera, and the second seems to hover around
> 38 degrees, neither rising nor falling significantly. Is the readout
> wrong, or is the cooling chip not functioning properly? The camera head
> is warm to the touch. Outside air temperature was about 95 degrees F at
> the time.
>>>>>snip>>>

Scott,

I encountered a similar problem a few weeks ago. The camera simply
refused to cool down but all other functions were available. The bug
disappeared after I disconnected the cable which goes from the camera
head to the control box by mistake while everything was powered up. I
think it was the connector going into the control box. It might be worth
a try.

Bert Mettier

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