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Thanks for bragging about the Pachon CONCAM. We are doing our best effort to keep it working and giving nice pictures of our sky to all the world. Regarding the problem, it seems that the problem is in the computer. From now on all the CONCAM3 will be offline for three weeks so I'll have time to tes...

The network cable was found loose at the network switch, causing
a communication problem. The camera was okay.
The cable was connected properly and now the system is back
on business.

Hi Don Carlos, I heard that at Canary Island an enclosure for the CONCAM was biuld but it got fog inside. Can you tell me something about it, please? Questions: Does your enclosure has an acrylic transparent dome? Does it has vents? Is the moisture condensing inside the acrylic dome or outside? Plea...

Glad to hear that you liked my work, thanks! We made all the vents and we are expelling the warm air in order to have the same temperature and humidity inside and outside the case. Why? I thought, if the warm air is kept inside, the camera will be always warmer than the outside. Then, when the tempe...

Hi, glad to hear that you liked what we did. This case help us to protect the CONCAM, for about a year, from the bad weather. It works very nice because it avoid the water and fog to go inside and also it provides vents to keep the internal air temperature close to the external temperature to avoid ...

Hi, here at CP we build an enclosure for the camera in order to improve its weatherproofing because the winter in Pachon is very hard, plenty of snowstorms, rain and fog. We use an acrylic transparent dome got from Edmund Optics, as a window, which has prove to have excelent optical quality. Also, t...