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Piranha4 8K Camera Color User's Manual
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Teledyne DALSA
Appendix B: ASCII Commands
The following commands can be used to control the Teledyne DALSA Piranha4 P4-CC-08K050-00-R
camera.
To access the TLC an ASCII-based communications tool, such as Hyperterminal or equivalent, must be
used.
First, cycle power to the camera either by issuing the reset camera (rc) command or by powering the
camera OFF and then ON. Next, load the ASCII interface. Finally, press the <ESC> key.
Note:
while the camera is initializing the <ESC> command is ignored.) A list of the available commands
will display.
To switch from the ASCII-command interface to the GenCP interface, the camera must be either reset or
go through the power cycle.
The camera responds to a simple ASCII-based protocol. A carriage return <CR> ends each command.
Example: to return the current detector settings
gcp <CR>
A complete list of the available detector commands, their format and parameters can be displayed by
sending the help (
h
) command.
Port Configuration
Baud:
9,600
Bits:
8
Parity:
None
Stop bits:
1
Flow Control: None
Echo typed characters locally.
Note that the HyperTerminal application is not available on the Windows 7 OS.
Alternatives to HyperTerminal
The following alternative ASCII-interfaces have been tested and shown to work with this camera:
PuTTY and TeraTerm. Note that PuTTY does not have Xmodem capability while TeraTerm does.
Xmoden is required to update code in the camera.
TeraTerm
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