Diy mount hub

[redtail]

Finished fabricating my Diy mount hub. This has auto dew heaters ,6 switchable usb ports ,auto focuser control, 3 power relays and an oled display showing the variable power to each of the three dew bands.Tested and working fine.The hub is fabricated out of 5mm aluminium.Only one usb and one power lead to connect to the hub.

[Uplooker]

Cool, well done

[saac]

Looking really good redtail, you've saved yourself a serious amount of money looking at the price of commercially available hubs.  I've a long term project aim to do something similar  -  you may well have convinced me to bring it up the pecking order  

 

Jim

[Steve 1962]

Very impressive! I don't suppose you'd be willing to share more details please?

Cheers

Steve

[redtail]

Yes,what do you want to know.

 

[michael8554]

Clever solution to the problem of how to attach a mount hub.

Have you considered a side-by side mounting of the OTA's to reduce the height?

Why the thick block between the two OTA's  - query not criticism.

Michael

[redtail]

The thick block came with the finder and i don't want to alter the rings by filing a flat.

[michaelmorris]

On 14/12/2016 at 19:03, redtail said:

Yes,what do you want to know.

A few questions.

Have you had any problems with flexure of the box?

Would it be possible to see some photos on the internals of the hub?

Thanks

[michael8554]

3 hours ago, redtail said:

The thick block came with the finder and i don't want to alter the rings by filing a flat.

Ah, understood

Michael

[SonnyE]

I like this a lot, Redtail! Well done!

It follows along what I hope to do with mine should I ever tear it down to revamp my wiring (which is harnessed).

Running a single USB cable from the mount, does it ever have problems with data collisions or slowing down? I ask because when I put in my USB Powered hub, it cured a lot of problems. But I installed it at my computer end of the cables for ease. I would much prefer to have your version with a single power wire and a single USB cable. But I've been lazy about tearing things apart. It was one of those temporary things that became permanent.

Ideal to me would be wireless, with one of those mini computers WiFi'd to my inside computer. But I think I still need a display, keyboard, and mouse on site.

[redtail]

Hi the hub boards are powered .

[Dr_Ju_ju]

16 hours ago, SonnyE said:

Ideal to me would be wireless, with one of those mini computers WiFi'd to my inside computer. But I think I still need a display, keyboard, and mouse on site.

I started off trying to control a mount local pc, over wifi from my main pc inside the house, but found it to be very unreliable with slow\dropped connections. I ran 2, external grade, CAT 5e cables to the mount from my switches so now have a GB net connected system.

For remote control, I use remote desktop\teamviewer, but also playing with VNC for some experimental linux systems...

 

[Alan White]

That looks far from DIY!
Wonderful hub, looks great, bet it works great as well.
Makes my plastic box (in progress) look quite pathetic by comparison.

Out of interest, what mount do you sit this upon?

[redtail]

Hi Alan,it was on an heq5 but is going on my new neq6.