From: "Tim" <tjp314@pacbell.net>
Date: March 2, 2007 11:07:09 PM MST
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Flea2 woes
Milton:
I fiddled around some more and it seems to be the connection to the
computer. It's a heavy stiff cable, and there are no threads for the
screws to go into, so when I turn the computer to view the screen from
the telescope, for example, it tends to lose connection, even if the
cable hasn't actually come out.
Seeing is awful tonight, so I think I'll stare at my eyelids before I
try again. Maybe I'll take some eclipse pictures tomorrow night!
-Tim.
--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@...> wrote:
Hi Tim;
That does sounds like a connection problem, but I'm not sure if it's
the cable, the camera connector or perhaps the Mac's FW800 port.
With mine they included two cables, a FW800 to FW800 cable and a
FW800 to FW400 cable. You could try it out using the FW800 to FW400
cable and see if that works or not. If it does work, that likely
rules out the camera being the the problem and it's either the FW800
to FW800 cable OR the FW port on your Mac.
HTH..
Milton J. Aupperle
President
ASC - Aupperle Services and Contracting
Mac Software (Drivers, Components and Application) Specialist
#1005 - 815 14th Avenue. S.W.
Calgary Alberta Canada T2R0N5
1-(403)-229-9456
milton@...
www.outcastsoft.com
On 2-Mar-07, at 6:58 PM, Tim wrote:
Milton:
I've been having more trouble than not with the connection to the
Flea2.
It seems like if there's any tension at all on that cable, even if the
screws into the camera are tight, that I can't get Astro IIDC to find
the camera.
I'm starting to wonder whether it's the cable after all, versus the
camera itself?
-Tim.