Re: [APML] 2 More ST-4 questions

[Alen Koebel <alen_koebel@yahoo.ca>]

Philip Perkins (who wrote a great article on 
guiding for S&T) wrote:

> Correct - the ST-4 draws approximately 1 amp.  
> The mention of 2 amps must have been a mistaken
> reference from the STV spec.  One of the 
> significant advantages of the ST-4 for remote 
> stand-alone autoguiding is the relatively low
> current drain.

I don't have an ST4 or STV but I have friends that
do. After watching my friend with the STV fuss with
it all night and talk about what the next software
upgrade will fix, I think the thing is too darn 
fancy for its own good - at least when used strictly
as an autoguider. It is not IMHO the true logical
successor to the ST4. When is someone, if not SBIG,
going to release that true successor? (Too bad Meade
decided to rest on what few CCD laurels it garnered.
All its CCD camera designs are *ancient*. And too 
bad Apogee managed to make a joke out of the LISAA.
Their autoguider concept look promising.)

(Just the grumblings of someone who wants to buy an
autoguider and is disappointed that the "best" one
is still a discontinued model.)




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