G'Day (and sorry about the long email ... again), My plans for observing the graze of Antares last Friday night collapsed in the last 48 hours or so before the...
Hi all. Finally got my act together and got my KiwiOSD unit working. Mainly a matter of wiring up power cables, video leads, reading the manual, etc, and...
Hello Steve, this is also a long answer-message :-). After reading about your troubles I made a download of the pdf-manual about Garmin GPS16 HVS. There are no...
Gerhard Dangl
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Nov 6, 2005 7:29 pm
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Hi Steve, ... Yes, I believe the techincal term for occasions like that is... GRRR ... I have played that game and quite frankly I've given up trying to...
Hi Dave. Thanks for the suggestion of using a grabber card to capture individual fields. I was hoping to get the fields from the DV stream from the camera, but...
Hi Steve, I suggest you experiment on total lunar events, to sort out equipment bugs and your technique. There are always some nice bright D's and R's every...
Hi Dave, and all. Oops ... I left myself open for that suggestion, didn't I? Here I was trying to avoid doing any observing till the next "interesting" event,...
Gerhard beat me to the punch but brings up some valid issues. before we go forward in trying to locate the problem, we have to insure all the ducks are in a...
As of November 8th, 2005, PFD Systems will no longer be offering the KIWI-OSD as a kit. Only the KIWI-OSD RTG model will be available. In addition, the KIWI- ...
Alas, I know where you are coming from and can fully understand your decision to limit it to completed units. But I wish I had acted sooner on getting the kit...
I have made a couple modifications to my kit, Derald, with very satisfactory results. I am sure the RTG version has the same box and board, so it should be no...
Walt, you are correct. the made up units are exactly like the kits, except that i assemble them myself. i must add though, that if you do surgery on the RTG ...
Vince, The 1st thing I would do is replace the computer cable with a socket in the side of the box. Then if I ever did need to plug into a computer, I could...
Derald, All good ideas, and ones we thought of, but let address them. Computer cable: this is the tough one. the "socket" on the box would have to be...
Gerhard and Vince, Thanks very much for your replies... I'm afraid that I am only getting to play with this stuff on Sundays at the moment hence the slow...
Hello Steve, ... I did not know about this. So I think it will be OK. ... It seems your problem is really after polyfuse F2. ... In my Nov. 2005 download I got...
Gerhard Dangl
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Nov 13, 2005 1:17 pm
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Hello Steve, ... Yes, I wouldn't remove the OSD pcb at this stage. I think it is behaving as it should. Vince tests each RTG before he ships, so your pcb has...
Vince, Would you be interested in putting one together if I built the 'box' with all connectors etc installed? I think it would be a metal box with the LED...
... To overcome my jealousy of your Bridgeport, I thought I would just make a few comments about a metal box and your planned extension cable Derald. The OSD...
Hi all. Having owned my KOSD now for a few weeks, I've been looking forward to trying it out. As I reported earlier, my attempts to record a graze were...
Hi Steve, ... Sorry to hear about that... but good on ya for trying to use the gear. Remember... Bozo the Occultation Gemigod has a law that states that you...
Warning: initial excitment of using your OSD for the first time will give way to total frustrations due to cloud cover. For those of you who suffer from this...
Fellow Occultationalists, I have noticed a possible problem regarding the frame rate figure reported by Limovie on some videos and wish to let everybody know,...
Geoff or whomever: My Kiwi OSD worked great right out of the box, I'm very happy with the purchase. I've played around with GPS in the past, using the...
G'day Chris, I was talking to a friend of mine (Ted, if you must know) the other day who has become a GPS_aholic and wishes to run 2 or 3 applications...
Hi Chris, Welcome aboard, and sorry for my belated reply - I have just returned from an enjoyable kayak/hiking holiday (southern hemisphere summer). ... The...
In a recent thread DaveG (Australia) wrote ... Because there are a lot of people now using KIWI OSD, I thought it would be useful to devise a test procedure -...
I have an story I usually only get to tell to uber-geeks that answers the question posed below by Geoff. I guess we're all geeks on this bus, eh? ;-) : ... I...
... Sam, you are correct, it is unlikely the GPS system had invalid time information in the above case. The "integrity test" that you invoke (by pressing the...
