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7.3.7 Status Monitoring and Diagnostics .................................................................................. 183
Status Information Returned from the Scan System ................................................... 183
7.4 Laser Control ............................................................................................................................... 184
7.4.1 Enabling, Activating and Switching Laser Control Signals ................................................ 184
Signals for “Laser Active” Operation ........................................................................... 186
Signals for “Laser Standby” Operation ....................................................................... 186
Automatic Suppression of Laser Control Signals ......................................................... 187
7.4.2 Configuring the LASER Connector .................................................................................... 187
7.4.3 CO
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Mode ........................................................................................................................ 188
7.4.4 YAG Modes 1, 2, 3, 5 ....................................................................................................... 190
Q-Switch Signal .......................................................................................................... 190
FirstPulseKiller Signal .................................................................................................. 190
Differences Between the YAG Modes ......................................................................... 190
Lamp Current (Laser Power) ....................................................................................... 191
7.4.5 Laser Mode 4 ................................................................................................................... 193
7.4.6 Laser Mode 6 ................................................................................................................... 194
7.4.7 Softstart Mode (not yet implemented) ............................................................................. 195
7.4.8 Pulse Picking Laser Mode ................................................................................................. 196
7.4.9 “Automatic Laser Control“ ............................................................................................... 197
Position-Dependent Laser Control .............................................................................. 199
Speed-Dependent Laser Control ................................................................................. 201
Encoder-Speed-Dependent Laser Control ................................................................... 204
Loading and Determining the Nonlinearity Curve ....................................................... 204
Vector-Defined Laser Control ...................................................................................... 206
7.4.10 Synchronization of the RTC6 Clock Cycle and an External Clock Signal ............................ 207
7.4.11 Pulse Synchronization Mode ............................................................................................ 208
7.5 Marking Dates, Times and Serial Numbers .................................................................................. 210
7.5.1 Marking the Time and Date ............................................................................................. 210
7.5.2 Marking Serial Numbers ................................................................................................... 210
8 Advanced Functions for Scan Head Control and Laser Control .................................................... 212
8.1 iDRIVE Functions ......................................................................................................................... 212
8.1.1 Transfer Protocol .............................................................................................................. 212
8.1.2 Configuring the Data Signal Transmission Behavior of the Scan System .......................... 213
Setting Data Types ...................................................................................................... 213
Reading Out Data ....................................................................................................... 213
8.1.3 Monitoring the Positioning .............................................................................................. 214
8.1.4 Selecting the Tuning (Dynamics Setting) .......................................................................... 216
8.1.5 Jump Mode ...................................................................................................................... 217
Functional Principle .................................................................................................... 217
Requirements and Activation ...................................................................................... 218
Jump-Length-Dependent Jump Delays ....................................................................... 218
Determining Jump Delay Values Experimentally ......................................................... 219
Notes on Loading Determined Jump Delay Values ...................................................... 219
Automatic Determination of the Jump Delay Table .................................................... 221
8.1.6 Configuring the PosAck Limit Value ................................................................................. 222
8.1.7 Configuring the Effective Calibration ............................................................................... 222
8.1.8 Configuring the Start Behavior ......................................................................................... 223
8.1.9 Fault Diagnosis and Functional Test ................................................................................. 223
8.2 Coordinate Transformations ....................................................................................................... 224
8.3 Online Positioning ....................................................................................................................... 228
8.3.1 “Local Online Positioning“ ............................................................................................... 228
Configuring “Local Online Positioning“ ...................................................................... 229