ZWO EFW 7 Position Electronic Filterwheel for 2 Inch Filters

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  • €649,95
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ZWO EFW 7 Position Electronic Filterwheel for 2" Filters

This is the ZWO EFW 7 Position Electronic Filterwheel for 2 inch Filters,  and is most likely one of the smallest 7-position filter wheels in the world. It is also extremely lightweight, it weighs 400g only.

Its housing is CNC machined from aircraft grade aluminium alloy.

The stepper motor, that is the heart of any electronic filter wheel, is made by a reliable Japanese company, NPM. You can trust its quality and reliability.

This high quality 7-position filter wheel has been designed mainly for astro photography, especially, but not exclusively for ZWO ASI1600 cameras.

This EFW can also accept unmounted 50.4mm filters.

As it is ASCOM compatible, therefore it can be used with cameras of other brands as well.

Up to 7 filters can be installed in the numbered compartments that accepts 2" filters and each can be selected for your eyepiece or camera from an imaging software.

 

 ZWO now offers 1.25", 31mm and 36mm LRGB and narrowband deep sky filters as well.

The ZWO EFW 7 Position Electronic Filterwheel for 2" Filters can be attached to your focuser either by the supplied 1.25” nosepiece adaptor or via a T-thread. There is actually a female T-thread on both sides of the filter wheel, but it also comes with a reverse adapter with male T-thread on both sides.

The robustly constructed filter wheel is supplied with a 1.25” nosepiece and a 1.25” eyepiece holder with brass compression ring.

 

The full ZWO EFW 7 Position Electronic Filterwheel for 2" Filters set includes:

  • EFW 7-position filter wheel
  • M54M-M48F Adapter
  • M54M-M42F Adapter
  • M54M-M48F-2 Adapter
  • Filter masks for 50mm filters
  • 23 pcs M2x4 Screws
  • 6 pcs M2x5*6 Screws
  • Phillips Screwdriver
  • USB2.0 2m Cable



Please note: your focuser will require 20mm of additional inward focusing distance from the normal focus position to compensate for the thickness of the filter wheel.

This filter wheel will be a good addition to the new ASI1600MM Pro camera, (please make sure that your telescope otherwise have enough back focus, of course, e.g. Newtonian telescopes would usually have a back focus issue, unless modified or specially designed for astro photograpy...)

 

LIMITING F-RATIO, for ASI1600 Owners

The distance between the filter and sensor is around 10-12mm when you connect the ASI1600 to this EFW, so a 2" filter won’t have vignetting with a scope down to about  f/1.2 focal ratio (depending on the thickness of the filter), which meets any demand in astronomy, therefore we would recommend this filter wheel for customers who might use it with various cameras, including one with APS-C sized sensor or simply for futureproofing, i.e. those who might upgrade their camera to an APS-C sized sensor in the future.

Please note, these limiting ratio figures are slightly different from ZWO's own calculations and to be checked in practice.

 

Notes

Filters (not including the threads) must be less than 7.5mm in thickness and less than 50.8mm in diameter. Threads must be less than 2.7mm in thickness.

 

How to use it?

you just need to plugin the EFW with a USB2.0 cable and install the  ASCOM driver from here.

There are  ZWO Filter Wheel(1) and ZWO Filter Wheel(2) to select,  you can use either one of them.

You can control 2 filter wheels simultaneously from one software.



SPECIFICATIONS

  • Thickness: 20mm
  • Power consumption: 150 mA at 5 Volts
  • ASCOM compatible
  • Positions: 7 x 2 Mounted, 0r 7 x 50.5mm unmounted 
  • Weight: 400g
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