About The Hardware; Parts Of The Device - Lacerta M-GEN User Manual

1 About the Hardware

1.1 Parts of the device

The "LACERTA M-GEN Stand-Alone AutoGuider" (referenced as LMG) consists of the
following parts:
• Handcontroller (referenced as HC). It has the whole user interface (buttons,
indicator LEDs, LCD) and does the main functions like Autoguiding, Random
Displacement, AutoExposure etc.
The display is a graphic, 128x64 dot negative LCD with backlight. Previous
versions have red while the new ones come with amber (orange) color due to the
much better contrast.
Note that there is a protector film on the display window, You must remove it
before the first use! This is quite invisible in dark when the LCD backlight is on,
some can let it on to protect the window from scratching and remove only if too
much scratch is visible yet.
The connetor panel is located at the bottom of the HC box:
These are the following from left to right:
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