Hardware supported by RTS2

Mounts

CCDs

  • Full range of the SBIG parallel and USB port cameras<
  • All Starlight Linux minidriver based cameras (Starlight XPress, FLIcam, cookbook..)
  • Apogee cameras, including ALTA family (most probably only with patched drivers - instructions are provided)
  • FLI cameras supported with libfli
  • Andor CCDs
  • custom CCDs controlled with EDT board
  • CAHA-MPIA?? range of CCDs
  • ARC / Leach controller CCDs (version 1.7 and 2.0 of the API)
  • MI CCD Moravian Instruments CCDs

Focusers

  • EPICS based focusers (CAHA, closed source, but EPICS connection class is open source)
  • Optec focusers
  • Robofocuser
  • FLI focuser
  • Pi4 focuser (Bootes IR)

Filter wheels

  • EPICS controlled filter wheels
  • Integrated SBIG filter wheels
  • Optec filter wheels
  • FLI filter wheels

Photomultipliers

  • Optec SP5 with special ISA card (own kernel driver for 2.4 and 2.6 Linux kernels)

Mirrors

  • Own mirror design (ask Petr Kubanek for details)
  • Pi4 mirror (Bootes IR)

Dome controllers

  • Arduino boards (details soon)
  • Ford Dome control (ask Ford for board details)
  • Dome control based on some PCI card (Dublin dome)
  • TI PCI I/O card dome controller with Comedi
  • Zelio Modbus/TCP-IP control Description

Cupola controllers

Meteo stations

  • All meteo stations supported with Meteo package (Davis Vantage,..)
  • All meteo stations which can transmit to RTS2 UDP packets (as does one at the Pierre-Auger site)
  • Comedi supported data acquisition boards

Cloud and rain sensors

UPS

  • All UPS supported by NUT
  • All UPS supported by APC UPSD (but if you can, avoid it and use NUT)

Sensors, special devices

  • Cryocoon cryogenic controller
  • Keithley (pico)ampermeters
  • Phytron stepper motors
  • Aerotech arm (A3200)
  • MS257 monochromator
  • DS21 stepper motor
  • Newport light source
  • Brooks 356 Micro-Ion® Plus Modules pressure sensor
  • Lakeshore cryogenic controller
  • TRIAX Series (Jobin Yvon/Horiba) monochromator
  • Newport MM2500 stepper controller
  • Rotronic MOK-WIN/ HygroWin humidity and temperature sensor
 
hw/start.txt · Last modified: 2010/03/28 15:41 by kaklik
 
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