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Piranha 2 User’s Manual
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Teledyne DALSA
3.18 Monitoring the Camera
The cam era is equ ip p ed w ith a red / green LED u sed to d isp lay the op erational statu s of
the cam era. The follow ing table su m m arizes the op eratin g states of the cam era and th e
corresp on d ing LED states:
LED state
Priority Camera
Status
Condition
Blinking RED
1
Error
Fatal hard w are failu re
Stead y RED
2
Warning
Monitoring task failu re
Blinking GREEN
3
Progress
Lengthy op eration in p rogress. While
cam era is blinking green, d o not p ow er
d ow n cam era or m em ory m ay be corru p ted .
Stead y GREEN
4
OK
H ealthy
N ote:
When m ore than one cond ition is active, the LED in d icates th e con d ition w ith th e
highest p riority. Error an d w arning states are accom p anied by corresp on d ing m essages
fu rther d escribing the cu rren t cam era statu s.
Monitoring Tasks
The cam era enters a w arn ing state w hen any of cam era's continu ou sly ru nning
m onitoring tasks d etects a failu re. Use the
wed
i i
com m and , w here the first p aram eter
is the m onitoring task an d the second p aram eter is the en able or d isable valu e, to d isp lay
the statu s of all the d efined m onitory tasks (if no p aram eter is p assed ) and / or to
enable/ d isable sp ecific m onitoring tasks.
N ote: If you are p erform ing d efect d etection d ow n to a single p ixel, enabling m onitori ng
tasks is not ad visable becau se m onitoring can occu r d u rin g active vid eo and cou ld
p otentially p rovid e erroneou s d ata.
The follow ing table lists the m onitoring tasks:
Monitoring
task number
Code MONITORING TASK
DESCRIPTION
0
All
Enable/ d isable all m onitoring tasks
1
1
Voltage Monitoring
Monitors all cam era voltages
2
2
Tem p eratu re Monitoring
Monitors cam era tem p eratu re
3
4
External SYN C p resence
Monitors p resence of external SYN C
4
8
External PRIN p resence
Monitors p resence of external PRIN
5
16
Gain Ou t Of Sp ec
Monitoring
Monitors cu rrent setting of analog
gain
6
32
Line Rate Below 1 Khz
Monitors cu rrent line rate
Value
Function
0
Disable selected task
1
Enable selected task
N ote:
by d efau lt all m on itoring tasks are en abled excep t voltage m o nitoring.
Example: enable all monitoring tasks
wed 0 1
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