Thanks Bob...I did see your post on the DL site, as of this morning no reply. Jolly useful to have a system that will intermittently not function properly. I may have to put the STL6303E back on the scope as it seemed to function properly. There is still an issue with the driver package with this camera, as I mentioned I was getting weird patterns on binned images. Last on that some time ago was that they were going to address it but it was a back burner issue. I am running a slightly older version of Maxim-6.28-but not wanting to just upgrade because...unless it will for sure fix the problem.

Thanks again,