46 Spyder3 S3-14 and S3-24 Monochrome Camera User's Manual
03-032-20117-01 Teledyne DALSA
Setting the Mirror Mode
Sets the camera’s mirror mode. Set the pixel readout as either left to right, or right to left.
Camera Link Command
0: Pixels readout left to right.
1: Pixels readout right to left.
S3-24-01K40 smm 0 = 1-512 (tap 1) or 513-1024 (tap 2)
smm 1 = 1024-513 (tap 1) or 512-1 (tap 2)
S3-24-02K40 smm 0 = 1-1024 (tap 1) or 1025-2048 (tap 2)
smm 1 = 2048-1025 (tap 1) or 1024-1 (tap 2)
S3-24-04k-40 smm 0 = 1-2048 (tap 1) or 2049-4096 (tap 2)
smm 1 = 4096-2049 (tap 1) or 2048-1 (tap 2)
Setting the Readout Mode
See also, the Clearing Dark Current section in Appendix A for more information on this mode.
Use this command to clear out dark current charge in the vertical transfer gates immediately before the
sensor is read out.
Camera Link Command
0: Auto. Clears dark current below ~ 45%
of the maximum line rate.
1: Dark current clear. Always clears dark.
Reduces the maximum line rate.
2: Immediate readout. Does not clear
dark current. (Default mode.)
The vertical transfer gates collect dark current
during the line period. This collected current is
added to the pixel charge. The middle two red
taps have more vertical transfer gates and,
therefore, more charge. This additional charge
is especially noticeable at slower line rates.
If the user is in sem 2 or 7 and srm 2, with
ssf at 45% of the maximum, and then srm 1 is
selected, the following warning will be
displayed, but the ssf value will not be
changed: Warning 09: Internal line rate
inconsistent with readout time> The effect in
both internal and external line rate modes is
that an EXSYNC is skipped and, therefore, the
output will be at least twice as bright.
This value is saved with the camera settings.
This value may be viewed using either the gcp
command or the get srm command.