Pegasus Astro Saddle Powerbox

[Dark Raven]

While looking for something else I stumbled upon this pricey but interesting Pegasus saddle -power box combo. 

 

The Saddle Powerbox has similar features to the Pocket Powerbox Advance and can be attached directly to the NYX-101 mount or other mounts on the market.

Optional pucks for mounts from other suppliers. The Saddle Powerbox can be placed directly on the NYX-101 mount. An additional puck is required for other types of mounts. Currently the Saddle Powerbox supports the following mounts: 

ZWO-AM5 mount.

NEQ6 and EQ6-R mounts.

RST 135 and RST 300 mounts.

Features:
4 x 12 V DC outputs for your devices (a single channel to switch all four outputs on and off via software)

10 amps total output current

Integrated active USB3 hub - 2 x USB3 ports and 2 x USB2 ports available

1 x Power USB connection (up to 3 amps) - suitable for the power supply of the Raspberry PI 3/4

2 channels with PWM for dew protection heaters - 5.5/2.1 m outputs (power adjustable via software), 2 adapter cables 5.5/ 2.1 to RCA included

Built-in humidity and temperature sensor

Automatic setting of dew protection heating channels

Power, current and input voltage meter

Reverse polarity protection

USB/PC controlled or standalone operation, ready to use

Lightweight and extremely compact aluminum body

Losmandy and Vixen clamp

 

https://www.firstlightoptics.com/pegasus-astro/pegasus-saddle-powerbox-for-nyx-101.html

 

[teoria_del_big_bang]

What a brilliant idea, but at that price it will put a lot off getting one.

Steve

[Stuart1971]

Wow, good idea, but what a ridiculously hight price….😮

[SteveNickolls]

Great to see a new Pegasus product, as a company they are excellent in quality and attentive regarding queries. I'm waiting for them to release an iOptron EAF conversion kit for the Samyang lens. 

Cheers,

Steve

[Stuart1971]

1 hour ago, SteveNickolls said:

Great to see a new Pegasus product, as a company they are excellent in quality and attentive regarding queries. I'm waiting for them to release an iOptron EAF conversion kit for the Samyang lens. 

Cheers,

Steve

Why would they release that, for a product that is not there’s…🤔🤔

[Dark Raven]

The more I look at it, the more I like it, conceptually that is. This should be standard for all AP set ups.

Price wise, good dual V and D saddle goes for 180 to 210. Pegasus powerbox advance is 259. So, 399 for Powerbox saddle and 45 for adapter puck comes quite similar and in that respect could be digestible. Happy to pay for convenience of avoiding potentially expensive cable snags.

However, ASIAIR Plus 32G is 330 and 256G is 419 and this is where it fails.

You will have a saddle on your mount anyway and with ZWO ASIAIR Plus you will have immensely more functionality but little less power (10A vs 6A).

This might be viable for all non ZWO set ups with N.I.N.A. and RPI Indi server / KSTARS or strllarmate scenarios if you have abundance of nerves to deal with instabilities.

[Stuart1971]

4 hours ago, SteveNickolls said:

Great to see a new Pegasus product, as a company they are excellent in quality and attentive regarding queries. I'm waiting for them to release an iOptron EAF conversion kit for the Samyang lens. 

Cheers,

Steve

I am just a bit confused too by your post, why would Pegasus release a conversion kit for an ioptron product to work on a samyang lens, surely they would want people using there own focusers…🤔

[SteveNickolls]

4 hours ago, Stuart1971 said:

surely they would want people using there own focusers…🤔

Don"t fret. A while ago I contacted Pegasus Astro about them making a ring mounting systems for the Samyang to use together with their own  EAF. It is something they hope to get around to in tbe future but have other priorities currently. If they can make mounting platforms to take diffferent makes of EAF they can have a share of the EAF/Samyang market, at the moment third parties make EAF platforms but just for ZWO EAF.

Cheers,

Steve

[Stuart1971]

1 hour ago, SteveNickolls said:

Don"t fret. A while ago I contacted Pegasus Astro about them making a ring mounting systems for the Samyang to use together with their own  EAF. It is something they hope to get around to in tbe future but have other priorities currently. If they can make mounting platforms to take diffferent makes of EAF they can have a share of the EAF/Samyang market, at the moment third parties make EAF platforms but just for ZWO EAF.

Cheers,

Steve

Oh don’t worry i’m not fretting, just curious

I know Pegasus well, and I can assure you anything they make will be to work with there own kit only,  and not to work with other manufactures kit, regardless of what they have told you…👍🏻

[Dark Raven]

Nico Carver had a short review on it...
 

 

[iapa]

I’m still looking for mechanical drawings - Pegasus do not do a puck for the AVX so I need to have one made somewhere.