80 Linea 2K and 4K Monochrome Line Scan Camera User's Manual
03-032-20206-00 Teledyne DALSA
Appendix D: Quick Setup and
Image Acquisition
If you are familiar with the operation of Camera Link cameras and have an understanding of imaging
fundamentals, the following steps will show you how to quickly set up this camera and begin acquiring
images.
1. On Power-Up
The camera has been calibrated and configured at the factory to be ready for you r evaluation when first
powered up. The default conditions are set as follows:
System gain is set to the lowest value of one.
Flat field calibration is not active as this feature is dependent on your light source and lens.
Line rate and exposure time are set to for internal generation by the camera.
Camera Link mode is set to the standard 8-bit full mode which allows operation of up to 80 kHz
line rate. Set your Camera Link frame grabber up to receive the standard 8-bit full mode.
2. Communicating with the Camera
The camera is designed to power up with a GenICam -compliant interface.
CamExpert provides an easy-to-use GUI that can be used to set up and evaluate the camera.
The cam era also comes w ith Teled yne DALSA‘s three letter com m and (TLC) interface option,
which can be accessed using a suitable terminal program such as HyperTerminal™.
If you w ant to use the TLC interface, press the ‗Esc‘ key w hile u sing a term inal program only
after the LED indicator on the camera turns green. Note that the camera defaults to 9.6 KBaud
when first powered up.
On receiving the ‗Esc‘ character, the cam era will output a list of the available TLC commands.
You can then proceed to enter TLC commands as required.
Enter ‗h ‘ at any tim e to get the list of com mands from the cam era.
Enter the ‗gcp ‘ com mand at any time to get the current setu p cond itions of the camera.
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