{"id":7653,"date":"2017-06-21T09:27:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T13:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=7653"},"modified":"2017-06-21T09:35:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T13:35:04","slug":"allsky2-camera-operational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2017\/06\/allsky2-camera-operational\/","title":{"rendered":"Allsky2 camera operational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170616_183406.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170616_183406-239x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170616_183406-239x299.jpg 239w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170616_183406-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170616_183406-768x962.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170616_183406-817x1023.jpg 817w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a>The allsky2 camera system has been down since mid April 2017.  We thought it was the camera.  After receiving a replacement and having it fail as well, attention turned to the power supply.  And that turned out to be the issue&#8230; an intermittent failure in the -12vdc and +12vdc supply unit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/allsky2\/\">Last night was the first operational night<\/a> in almost two months.  It is good to be back operational again!<\/p>\n<p>At the moment it is limping with just a single +12vdc power source running the camera, with no power to the heater or the circulation fan.  So it might get dewy on the inside of the dome&#8230; we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The allsky2 camera system has been down since mid April 2017. We thought it was the camera. After receiving a replacement and having it fail as well, attention turned to the power supply. And that turned out to be the issue&#8230; an intermittent failure in the -12vdc and +12vdc supply unit. Last night was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7653"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7658,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653\/revisions\/7658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}