ASIair Pro died

stubblejumper

It no longer powers up. Can it be repaired? If so, how/who/where?

w7ay

stubblejumper It no longer powers up.

Check your power supply voltage.

The specs that ZWO published for the ASIAIR is bogus. The specs says the third generation ASIAIR works from 11V to 15V. It does not. I tested two of them and they (from the same manufacturing run) both refused to boot if the voltage is over 13.75 volts -- i.e., it will not boot on a fully charged lead acid battery.

Chen

stubblejumper

Correction - it was my ASIair Plus that died. My pro version still works.

stubblejumper

Thx Chen. I am using a Starizona 12vDCi battery to power my two ASIair models. It was working fine initially. I tried to set up my 100ED with an FR but couldn't get it to focus. So I switched to my AT65 and it was during my setup of that scope that AA+ quit. The same battery worked with my Pro model after the AA+ died. Not only that, I tested it with a different Li battery with the same results. I think I caused the problem. When setting up the AT65, I was connecting cables to devices and accidentally attached an LI battery cable to an output port of the AA+. That probably fried something on the main board. Hmmm. I wonder if I could buy an RPi4 and install it.

Tech@ZWO

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You can submit a ticket here
https://support.astronomy-imaging-camera.com/