Spyder3 S3-14 and S3-24 Monochrome Camera User's Manual
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Teledyne DALSA
03-032-20117-01
Auto Mode (srm 0)
N ote:
This featu re is not available for the S3-24-04k40 cam era m od el.
In this m od e the line rate from the cam era w ill au tom atically cau se a sw itch betw een the gate d ark
cu rrent clear m od e and non gate d ark cu rrent clear m od e.
The frequ ency of w hen this m od e sw itch over occu rs d ep end s on the cam era m od el.
In cases w here the line rate is rap id ly increased from below the Dark Cu rrent Clear to Im m ed iate
Read ou t Transition Frequ ency to above the Im m ed iate Read ou t to Dark Cu rrent Clear Transition
Frequ ency, the first line follow ing this transition w ill likely be corru p ted .
The table below ou tlines the artifacts that m ay be seen d u ring this transition p eriod . All su bsequ ent lines
after this occu rrence w ill be as exp ected .
In the case of a slow transition (that is, w hen the EXSYN C line rate increases by less than 10% of the
p reviou s line rate) a line read ou t w ill not becom e corru p t.
There are also lim itations on the exp osu re tim e w hen op erating in au to m od e: If the line rate exceed s half
the m axim u m line rate, then the exp osu re tim e cannot exceed the tim e stated in Table 19.
N ote: Teled yne DALSA recom m end s Au to m od e for m ost u sers.
For inform ation on artifacts that m ay be exp erienced w hile u sing this m od e, see the Artifacts section
below .
Please note: The grap hic below exp lains the relationship betw een the follow ing tables an d the p reced ing
Figu re 28. The op erating regions d escribed in the tables refer to a sp ecific region of Figu re 28.
Dark Cu rrent Du m p to Im m ed iate Read ou t: Mu lti-Line Artifacts.