From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: October 31, 2007 9:59:49 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Comet Holmes Oct 30 from Toronto

Hi Alan;

On 31-Oct-07, at 9:49 AM, Alan Friedman wrote:

I was looking at the specs for the PGR dragonfly cameras the other day - it appears they use the Firewire 800 bus for data transfer. Does the Flea as well?

Don't worry about whether it's FireWire 400 or FireWire 800. PGR supplies a FireWire 400 to 800 cable (it has a FW 800 plug on one end, FireWire 400 on the other) and Astro IIDC works perfectly fine with it. Astro IIDC will detect what speed interface it's connected with and will adjust itself internally for the available band bandwidth (the code for this is pretty ugly).

As a Matter of fact, I no longer use a FireWire hub to utilize 2 cameras. I use the FW400 to FW800 cable to attach a Mono FW400 camera to the FW800 port on my G4 LapTop for guiding and attach the early model Flea FW400 camera with a FW400 cable. It all works fine.

HTH..

Milton Aupperle

best wishes,

Alan