I have one of the flatfield Gemini Snapcaps panels. In most respects it works well in SGP. However, I have found an irritating ‘quirk’. That is the illumination of the panel. I ran some flats (in fact the Flat Calibration wizard). I was then messing around in SGP and I noticed that the illuminated panel was remaining on (in the setting it was on when I ran the flat). So I figured that I had to manually switch it to illumination ‘0’ in the dialogue box.
However, when I disconnected the panel from SGP and reconnected, the panel was illuminated again. So this time I took a couple of frames with the panel set at ‘0’. Disconnected - reconnected - panel still illuminated but at a lower setting than before.
I repeated this again and again until I could get the panel to illuminate at level ‘2’. Now, no matter what I do, when I reconnect the panel is illuminated at ‘2’.
I have tried running some flats at Level ‘0’, I have tried cutting the power to the Snapcap unit. But whenever I first connect to the Snapcap, it is illuminated at ‘2’.
I can set the thing back to ‘0’ from within SGP but it is a little irritating having to remember to do this at the start of each session.
I don’t know if this is an ‘SGP-communicating-with-Snapcap’ issue, or if this is a problem with the Snapcap driver (in which case I would contact Gemini).
Any ideas? .