Guest Tweedledum Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 (edited) With Pete purchasing his behemoth dob, it became plain that some bits and bobs needed doing to complete and make work. 1. First task was to source an encoder cable. Surprisingly Orion would not sell one to the used scope market. Thread on SGL here... http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/218217-orion-telescopes-will-not-supply-spares-not-orion-optics-uk/ Well one encoder cable sourced, job done. 2. In order to route power to dewbands and a usb pass through, something was needed to neaten up the plethera of cables now potentially adorning the garden cannon..This was henceforth known as the 'Black Box'.... A bit of project creep saw Pete wanting the inclusion of 12v inverter for a laptop / netbook....Some discussion followed as I was the one shoe horning this together.. 3. Box sourced, some nice bright aviation grade power couplers, 12v marine grade connector, usb pass through and some rugged cable followed. 4. Pete drilled the box, er twice as on the learning curve discovered how hard the abs box was.. Box1 by DAR-PICS, on Flickr With the knobs on Box2 by DAR-PICS, on Flickr Box3 by DAR-PICS, on Flickr Side ports for dewstrips & USB Box4 by DAR-PICS, on Flickr The two 12v out ports with the 20v offset for the netbook / laptop.. Box5 by DAR-PICS, on Flickr The underside with the 12v in marine connection. Box7 by DAR-PICS, on Flickr And the finished inside, constructed 'cup' to fit the dew controller in as the 'control knobs' were vulnerable. This was epoxied in along with the psu for the netbook / laptop.. Box8 by DAR-PICS, on Flickr Now the leads for the dewstrips to go via conduit on the truss of the dob, and the video leads. Cheers Edited January 23, 2015 by Tweedledum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xanthic Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Nice work. What are you using for the dew controller? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedledee Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Lovely job, thanks Damian Nice work. What are you using for the dew controller? The guts of a Hitecastro 4 port dew controller is squeezed in there somewhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedledee Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Great idea with the epoxy to secure the dew controller. I was a bit concerned at first when we had it just hanging on by the 4 knobs. You've done such a neat job that there's plenty of room left in there for a bit more project creep Damian :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catman161 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 That's some seriously good work Damian [emoji106] Wish I had the technical know how to do stuff like this. Really professional looking job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tweedledum Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Thanks folks, plenty of room there Pete for that lovely bright 20w LED thermometer and voltmeter ......Could fit in a powered usb hub if needed..... Some sort of power rails would be nice and 4oz of C4 if anyone tries to take it off the dob.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedledee Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Thanks folks, plenty of room there Pete for that lovely bright 20w LED thermometer and voltmeter ......Could fit in a powered usb hub if needed..... Some sort of power rails would be nice and 4oz of C4 if anyone tries to take it off the dob.... No point wasting valuable space if we can fit some useful stuff in there . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZ Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 A very tidy job there Damian. Where do you plug the kettle in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red dwalf Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 very nice job, wish i could figure out how and what i need to do things like that, electronics and cable give me a head ache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tweedledum Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Martyn, 12v output on the side for travel kettle ... Wouldn't compete with the mash machine though... Rob, you need a problem first, analysis, then lots of planning before you hit the soldering iron .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 First thing that came to mind when I saw the pictures was >http://youtu.be/iDbyYGrswtg tuckstar, Tweedledee and BAZ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedledee Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Good find Alan Don't know how they did it, but they've managed to cram it all in to exactly the same box! It's really got me thinking now... Could I manage to get that much volume back into my hair? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tweedledum Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 (edited) Great stuff Alan. Pete NOOOOOOO and no! Edited January 24, 2015 by Tweedledum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cazz Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 That's well neat and very clever. And Pete, no more big ideas or hair Tweedledee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedledee Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Thanks Cazz. I suppose there's not much hope left for the big hair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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