Specifications

SBIG STF-8300 Manual
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Never plug or unplug the power connector to the camera with the power on.
The power connector on the STF-8300 is not made to be "hot plugged", or
connected when the AC adapter is connected to the AC line or when there
are 12V present at the camera connector. Make sure the AC line cord (or
battery) is disconnected prior to attaching or detaching the locking power
plug to the camera. "Hot" plugging the locking connector into the camera
could damage your camera and require it to be sent to SBIG for repair.
Very Important: Before you attach the STF-8300 to your computer for
the first time you MUST install the software as described in Section 2.
1. Introduction
Congratulations and thank you for buying one of our STF-8300 cooled
CCD cameras. The STF-8300 has the following features:
• Uses Kodak’s microlensed, blue enhanced KAF-8300 CCD with
3326 x 2504 pixels, 5.4 micron square pixels.
• 16-bit A/D converter with correlated double sampling running at
10 megahertz.
• Temperature regulated Thermo-Electric (TE) cooling with 40
degrees C max. delta for reduction in CCD dark current.
• Single board, small, compact design with internal shutter allowing
exposures down to 0.1 seconds that makes taking dark frames a
trivial task.
• USB 2 interface yielding up to 10 megapixels per second
digitization rates but full backward compatibility with USB 1.1.
• Input power requirements of 9.0 – 14.0 Volts DC at 3 Amps
through the new locking style center-positive power jack.
• Telescope interface with four optically isolated normally open
signals on the industry standard RJ-11 jack.
• T-Thread based mechanical interface that supports a variety of
nosepieces and adapters.
• Optional external filter wheels with choice of filters.
• Optional ST-i Autoguider and Integrated Off-Axis Guiding
Assembly for Self-Guiding
• Powerful yet intuitive CCDOps software for image acquisition and
processing.
Getting Started
WARNING! - Failure to follow these directions may damage your
camera and void your warranty.