Looking to Upgrade to NGC-5, question on power requirements

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astronerd

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I've been running a NEO-Z83-4 for almost 4 years now as a computer for my telescope, it's been a great little computer but I really need something now with more computing power.. All my astronomy gear uses 12v and current power solution provides a constant 12.7v out (10amps max). I see the NGC-5 has an input for DC 12v to 19v according to the photos on Amazon and it appears the AC power adaptor provides 19v. Is there a problem or downside of feeding 12v (specifically 12.7v) to the NGC-5?

Thanks!
-Mike
 
I also asked this question via the Amazon page where this unit is sold. I received the following answer:

The included power adapter is 19V. However, this device is able to run with the 12V power adapter
 
astronerd said:
I've been running a NEO-Z83-4 for almost 4 years now as a computer for my telescope, it's been a great little computer but I really need something now with more computing power.. All my astronomy gear uses 12v and current power solution provides a constant 12.7v out (10amps max). I see the NGC-5 has an input for DC 12v to 19v according to the photos on Amazon and it appears the AC power adaptor provides 19v. Is there a problem or downside of feeding 12v (specifically 12.7v) to the NGC-5?

Thanks!
-Mike
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I powered up my NGC-5 Pro for the first time today with a 12V 3A PSU. The device was unstable! It would occassionaly just lose power.

I switched to the supplied 19V 4.74A PSU and so far all is well!

I guess if you get a higher powered 12V PSU you should be OK.
 
Thanks, I‘m going to a Star Party next week and will be running off just DC power. I’ll post how the computer does. So far it’s leaps and bounds faster and more powerful than my NEO-Z83-4, but that is expected.

-Mike
 
astronerd said:
Thanks, I‘m going to a Star Party next week and will be running off just DC power. I’ll post how the computer does. So far it’s leaps and bounds faster and more powerful than my NEO-Z83-4, but that is expected.

-Mike
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Also, you've jumped a series (J50C-4) to the more powerful NGC-5. (y)

Do you have the NGC-5 (i5-8279U) or the NGC-5 Pro (i5-10210U) ?
 
Villa said:
Also, you've jumped a series (J50C-4) to the more powerful NGC-5. (y)

Do you have the NGC-5 (i5-8279U) or the NGC-5 Pro (i5-10210U) ?
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I purchased the i5-8279U. It ran perfectly on 12.7 volts. It ran just about every night, at the base of my telescope, from 7pm to 3am/4am. The WiFi reception was awesome, better than my iPad Air and better than my Dell laptop (10th gen i7).

I’m very pleased with my purchase. I thought I would need to upgrade from the 8GB of RAM right away but the NGC-5 performed perfectly as is. However, it’s good to know I have room for upgrades.

As an aside, in Astronomy, many of the objects we observe are part of what is called the New General Catalog with over 7800 objects listed. All objects are referred to as NGC XXXX. So with every NGC object I observe, I‘m using my NGC-5 to power those observations.?

-Mike
 
astronerd said:
As an aside, in Astronomy, many of the objects we observe are part of what is called the New General Catalog with over 7800 objects listed. All objects are referred to as NGC XXXX. So with every NGC object I observe, I‘m using my NGC-5 to power those observations.?

-Mike
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I used to work in Radio Astronomy!

I was a Cryogenic/Electronic Technician at Jodrell Bank Observatory in the UK.
 
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