Hi,
in the past few nights the temperature has been down to -25. I keep my astrogear in the storage room outside: it's closed, covered and dry but it's as cold as it is outside.
My guide cam, a QHY5 (aka ALccd5) won't work anymore: the led goes on but Windows complains that the USB device is malfunctioning. I have tried on 3 different computers, to no avail.
Could cold have killed it?
Thanks.
Hello,
Extreme changes in temperature or condensed moisture can kill CAM (or any similar electronic/optical device) I guess...
Then there hasn't been any change because the the camera has always been in outdoors temperature :)
Normally there are specified the working temperature and the storage temperature for every component. If they are not "mil" specified, the lover limits are higher than
-25C. So the ansver is yes, cold can kill your guiding camera. That don't mean that the camera is distroyed. That means that the manufacturer don't guarante anything.
Kaizu
Hello
It has been a lots of problem with QHY-5 USB-connection.
Many of amateur astronomies has told of the USB-failure.
I hope you can work it out.
t:Tiukkis