From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: February 26, 2011 12:47:16 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: Mono flea2 cameras on the 'bay

On 2011-02-26, at 12:20 PM, doobisary wrote:

Really?  I would think the grasshopper would be the better camera, depending on the particular chip, of course. 

And the Grasshoppers have a 14 bit versus Flea 2 12 bit  A/D converter too. So you get 2 times as many tonal ranges too to capture more subtle details.

And can't you daisy a flea2 onto the grasshopper?

Yes you can :)

My OAG rig has two cameras run off one FireWire 800 cable. I have a TIS 640x480 mono (for guiding) connected via a short FW400 to FW800 cable running to the second FW800 port on the Grasshopper.

If PGR had made the long exposure control better (i.e. like TIS did), I could hook up the GPIO pins on the Grasshopper to either control he HEQ5 ST-4 Guide port or pass serial commands to the hand controller and I'd be down to one wire to control everything going to the mount and cameras.

TTYL..

Milton Aupperle