CATERPILLAR
Roof and dome products
The Caterpillar family comprises a number of roof and dome products.
The CaterpillarR is designed to retrofit existing observatories with manual operation by 4 switches. |
Includes ASCOM drivers for domes.
Technical specifications:
- USB and WiFi (both station and access point) enabled
- With rotation module
- OTA updates - system auto-updates
- Connection to Hydreon rain sensor, Lunatico CloudWatcher
- Multiple safety measures: low battery level, rain, weather, missing of failed limit or home switch, comms problems...
- Complete auto calibration
- Advanced on-the-fly resync of rotation
- Very low power consumption (about 50mA, motors stationary)
- 12V operation