Thanks Brian! I'm doing well. It takes so much to do videos and I found I didn't have time to make more videos on a regular schedule. YT really doesn't help the smaller YT creators now a days. Their algorithm changed where a subscription doesn't matter. You click on one topic in YT and then it feeds you tons of larger channels. It was fun while it lasted. Thanks for watching! Doug
Hey Doug, sorry to see it failed after all that work you put into testing and configuring.. Lesson learned though, no ICE... lol Thanks again for sharing!
Hey Doug, so I take it you no longer have the website up and running? I know it's been a long time since you first started that. But I am glad to see you are still at the astro hobby. I started back up again after a lengthy hiatus. Having fun though and have some decent shots. Comparing them to the days of old, which I still have some of the shots. Anyways, just wanted to reach out and say hey again and by the way, Happy New Years... Clear skies
Hi David, yes it was hard to run this plus a full time job. I know most YT people this is a full time job. In 2017 I lost a family member and decided I needed to refocus my free time attention. I myself have fallen from AP, but, when I do have time, I try to share. I realize there are many talented people in the AP community now. I'm OK with standing by for now. Happy New Years to you! Doug
Running both hoses touching doesn't really help because if it did anything it would warm up the colder water heading to the camera. I run a co2 laser cutter and at first I tried a bucket of water to keep the laser cool but it fails rapidly. Your experiment doesn't generate nearly as much heat but I think you definitely can benefit from a larger reservoir with maybe a coil of copper tubing to help cool the return water if that water is warmer than ambient air.
Hi Bill, yes, the larger reservoir, and no ice would have been enough for this to work properly. Yes, the heat is not too great, but you're correct, there would be some cooling loss with both hoses together. I got greedy and tried pushing it to the max and ultimately destroyed the camera. I never got these out under the stars to properly test the results. Thanks for your sugggestions. Doug
Would that hose not cause issues, perhaps, with reliable tracking? I also wonder if the hoses from the camera will create quite some torque on the camera, possible slightly tilting the camera/sensor? ps. I noticed you have an offset of 127, that seems really high, usually I see those more in the realm of 30-50
True, the hose may have caused a problem, but I didn't get that far in my testing. I was hopeful the drag would be limited and no interference would be there. Just trying to push the limits and in this case I pushed it a little too far! Thanks Vincent, I appreciate your suggestions and comments. Doug
Thanks Grundle! I know there's some DSLR cooling devices I've seen in the past, but I've never tested them. This was an old camera I wanted to push to the limits to see what I could get out of it. It was a fun experiment. Thanks for watching and commenting! Doug
Awesome series Doug! Glad to see you back and looking well!
Thanks Goose! Appreciate the kind comments!
Been following for a long time. Hope you are doing alright my man. Miss your videos! Clear skies!
Thanks Brian! I'm doing well. It takes so much to do videos and I found I didn't have time to make more videos on a regular schedule. YT really doesn't help the smaller YT creators now a days. Their algorithm changed where a subscription doesn't matter. You click on one topic in YT and then it feeds you tons of larger channels. It was fun while it lasted. Thanks for watching!
Doug
Hey Doug, sorry to see it failed after all that work you put into testing and configuring.. Lesson learned though, no ICE... lol Thanks again for sharing!
It was a fun experiment. You know you have to always push it to the limits! Thanks David!
Maybe a plastic vapour barrier wrapped around the camera could have limited the condensation? Very interesting project.
I think it would have been good if I didn't push it with Ice. Thanks for the suggestion and your comments!
Hey Doug, so I take it you no longer have the website up and running? I know it's been a long time since you first started that. But I am glad to see you are still at the astro hobby. I started back up again after a lengthy hiatus. Having fun though and have some decent shots. Comparing them to the days of old, which I still have some of the shots. Anyways, just wanted to reach out and say hey again and by the way, Happy New Years... Clear skies
Hi David, yes it was hard to run this plus a full time job. I know most YT people this is a full time job. In 2017 I lost a family member and decided I needed to refocus my free time attention. I myself have fallen from AP, but, when I do have time, I try to share. I realize there are many talented people in the AP community now. I'm OK with standing by for now. Happy New Years to you! Doug
Running both hoses touching doesn't really help because if it did anything it would warm up the colder water heading to the camera. I run a co2 laser cutter and at first I tried a bucket of water to keep the laser cool but it fails rapidly. Your experiment doesn't generate nearly as much heat but I think you definitely can benefit from a larger reservoir with maybe a coil of copper tubing to help cool the return water if that water is warmer than ambient air.
Hi Bill, yes, the larger reservoir, and no ice would have been enough for this to work properly. Yes, the heat is not too great, but you're correct, there would be some cooling loss with both hoses together. I got greedy and tried pushing it to the max and ultimately destroyed the camera. I never got these out under the stars to properly test the results. Thanks for your sugggestions.
Doug
Would that hose not cause issues, perhaps, with reliable tracking? I also wonder if the hoses from the camera will create quite some torque on the camera, possible slightly tilting the camera/sensor? ps. I noticed you have an offset of 127, that seems really high, usually I see those more in the realm of 30-50
True, the hose may have caused a problem, but I didn't get that far in my testing. I was hopeful the drag would be limited and no interference would be there. Just trying to push the limits and in this case I pushed it a little too far! Thanks Vincent, I appreciate your suggestions and comments. Doug
bro i love this shit! i want to do it with a canon dslr! or do a peltier and block
Thanks Grundle! I know there's some DSLR cooling devices I've seen in the past, but I've never tested them. This was an old camera I wanted to push to the limits to see what I could get out of it. It was a fun experiment. Thanks for watching and commenting! Doug