Hello, I'm having an issue with my ASI071MC pro. I've been struggling with this for a while now, and came up with the following conclusions:
Somehow when the cooling of the camera reaches high TEC, it causes the camera to "crash". I know it sounds weird, but I'll try explaining as much as I can.
The reason I believe is not a software issue, is that I've had the same results on 2 different machines, on 2 different OS(one running W7 and the other W10), on 3 different programs(ASICAP, SharpCap, SGP) - I had the exact same results on both. The issue also happened when the cooling reached high TEC(around 90-100%), I tried running the cooling for very very long on low power, and everything still worked just fine, only when I rose the power to around 100%, the issue appeared.
What actually happens when the issue occurs?
On SGP, if I'm taking frames once it happens it's simply stuck on downloading the frame, until eventually after really really long I believe it will say that it wasn't able to download the frame.
On SharpCap it simply drops the frame and keeps capturing, that is until I click on the 'Cameras' menu, and then it simply "throws" my camera and disconnects it.
Some technical details:
I've tried using different cables, both USB2/3.
I tried different power supply both through 5A 220V AC and through 12V 5A DC.
I tried 2 machines as I stated above.
One more thing that happened to me, I tried using the camera in the field with my 12V 75AH battery, I don't know it for sure, but I believe that once the cooler reached high TEC of 90-100%, my 5A fuse got burned, which is extremely weired as the camera should only draw 3A max(even with slightly more). This thing happened to me 3 times, so I believe there's something wrong there.
Here is a(very very very poor) video of me showing how sharpcap starts dropping frames when the TEC rises:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PWKP2ARaL7CapfPqw91SJmiLn5g2qYV0/view
Any ideas would be much appreciated as I'm currently lost....Thanks!
