{"id":1636,"date":"2011-04-18T08:09:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T13:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2011-12-06T14:37:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T19:37:53","slug":"new-dew-heaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/new-dew-heaters\/","title":{"rendered":"New Dew Heaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back last fall I was fortunate enough to win a $50 gift certificate from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kendrickastro.com\/astro\/\">Kendrick Astro Instruments<\/a> in Toronto at the Fall&#8217;N&#8217;Stars Star Party 2010.  I had won one in the past but lost it and forgot to use it\/could not find it  before it expired.<br \/>\nThis time however I ordered almost immediately.  I was looking for a spare heater controller as of the two we have, one is a little flaky.  I was also looking for a heating band big enough to use on our cameras and or big 2&#8243; eyepieces.<br \/>\nWell, the order arrived late last week.  I was not lucky in that the controller I had ordered was discontinued and the new design was not in production yet.<a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110418-021.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110418-021.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20110418-02\" width=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1638\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere is the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kendrickastro.com\/astro\/dew_controllers.html#MicroController\">Firelite micro controller<\/a> (with two standard size RCA jacks), and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kendrickastro.com\/astro\/dew_premierheaters.html\">Dewminator<\/a> (2006-L\tDEW-Minator Large Eyepiece Heater\t10\t0.8\t75 x 205 mm 3&#8243; x 8&#8243;)<a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110418-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/20110418-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20110418-01\" width=\"200\"  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1639\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using the micro controller is going to be harder than I thought.  It has a single control button, used in various ways, (push, push and hold), sequences (wait until one state occurs than push for more commands), etc.  It was a way to reduce the cost of a controller down from $120 to $76 but we will wait and see for a final judgement once we use it out in the field.<\/p>\n<p>The specs say it can handle up to 12vdc, 7 amps = 84 watts, which is a *lot*.<br \/>\nThe 2006-L Dewminator Large heater is designed for 10 watts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back last fall I was fortunate enough to win a $50 gift certificate from Kendrick Astro Instruments in Toronto at the Fall&#8217;N&#8217;Stars Star Party 2010. I had won one in the past but lost it and forgot to use it\/could not find it before it expired. This time however I ordered almost immediately. I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}