Power problems

07:26 11/8/2008 UTC

Skies are finally getting almost dark here and last night was clear. I wanted to test everything together before I'll begin some serious imaging. Now I had all the equipment - PC included - running from battery. Everything seemed to be OK at first, but after I hooked my dew heaters up I started to having problems with low voltage cutouts and everything started to blink. My power dividers seemed to have a bit too little amperage capacity and voltage dropped below thresholds. I'll detached my PC power and ran with its internal battery rest of the short night. Everything else was good though, I have a working routing of focusing and guiding and get very consistent results. Here's a 100% crop of M57, shot using EOS350D and SWED80 at f6. 7 x 2min.