John Persichilli created a new topic ' Temperature Regulation' in the forum. 3 years ago

HI All,

I am happy with my computer installations for KStars and EKOS. But as you might guess I have a question. My question revolves around my specific set for the temperature regulation in EKOS.
Here is what I have:
I am running the latest version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
I have installed the Bleeding edge for KStars.

I have my CGEM 9.25" telescope attached to my Dell notebook.
I have my SBIG ST-9xme CCD camera setup under KStars and using EKOS.

I have set my ccd cooing temperature to -5.00 C. I watched the changes in the temperature from room temperature down toward the desired set temperature. However, I seem to only get about 0.41 C as the temperature switches from -5.23 to -4.82 and never reading or settling on -5.00 exactly.

I checked the settings for EKOS "Options" "Capture "and the temperature threshold is set to 0.1 C, Guiding settle is set to 0.00 seconds and the dialog timeout set to 60 seconds.

Given these values am I missing something or do I not understand what I need to do to get the temperature regulation settings to reflect the desired 0.1 C threshold to work?
Or, is there something that isn't working correctly with the Bleeding edge version of the software?

Any advice will be most appreciated. Thank you for supporting these great products!
Regards,
John

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