Combining the focuser and dew controller on a single board?
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This might be a very basic question, but i am trying to figure out if it is possible to combine the focuser project and the dew controller project into a single board?
Has anyone tried this and are there any special steps involved to make it happen?
Yes It is possible, I designed a pcb combining the focuser and
mydewcontroller for 2 dew straps but I did not send for manufacture the
pcbs.
Regars.
El dom., 23 de septiembre de 2018 17:08, Shailesh Nakhare astromaestro@users.sourceforge.net escribió:
Having a single arduino handle both is going to be very problematic. First there is not enough code space or memory space to combine both on a single nano. You are going to run into response problems as well as comms protocol problems, there would be a need to resdign these and probably make them transaction based. Secondly, you cannot have one comport sharing both a focuserobject and dewcontroller object. So you could not control the dew controller with say a windows app and then expect to control the focuser via ascom or another windows app using the one serial port. There is an exclusivity.
In short I would suggest it is a very bad idea.
Thanks for the quick and clear response... i will plan for the two separate boards then ...
Really appreciate your work on this and kudos to you for opening this up for the general public :)