Jarno Paananen replied to the topic 'Atik CCD "hangs" on exposure' in the forum. 3 years ago

I use the same camera with git head versions of INDI, 3rd-party drivers and KStars updated daily and haven't had this sort of issue as far as I can remember. Is the camera connected directly to your Raspberry or via hub? Is there anything in the kernel dmesg log like USB disconnections? I run Ubuntu 20.04 on x64 mini PC myself. The log didn't tell that much except it seems the cooler is running at full power which might cause power issues or if the set temperature (seems to be -30, which seems a bit excessive) is too low and the camera can't reach it, that might have something to do with it. The cooling is rated only for -40 degrees from ambient (have tried, it can, but only barely) so unless you were outside in quite cold, it just can't do that. I used to run mine at -15 but had issues during the winter that the ambient went below that (I live in Finland so that happens quite often) so changed to -20 and it has worked fine so far. Just have to take darks during the night if autumn is warm as my remote observatory gets quite warm during the day.

[2020-10-12T16:01:54.678 CEST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Atik 383L : "[INFO] Setting CCD temperature to -30.00 C "

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