Photron FAST Dock, User Manual

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2.Connecting to the High Speed Camera
14 FAST Drive/FAST Dock User
’s Manual
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FAST Drive could be connected to
“CAMERA HEAD 1” and “CAMERA HEAD 2”. However,
those ports do not correspond to each camera head. Connection does not concern the
number of cameras and the FAST Drives.
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Camera head and FAST Drive connections enable different operations.
CAMERA
HEAD
Head
Connection FASTDrive
Connection
STREAMING
RECORD
Downloading to FAST Drive from the
camera’s internal memory.
1 Yes Yes Enabled Enabled
2 Yes Yes Enabled Enabled
CAMERA
HEAD
Head
Connection
FASTDrive
Connection
STREAMING
RECORD
Downloading to FAST Drive from the
camera’s internal memory.
1 Yes Yes Disabled Enabled
2 Yes No Disabled Disabled
CAMERA
HEAD
Head
Connection
FASTDrive
Connection
STREAMING
RECORD
Downloading to FAST Drive from the
camera’s internal memory.
1 Yes Yes Enabled Enabled
2 No No Disabled Disabled
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When the camera head/FAST Drive connection caused some errors while recording, the
camera does the following.
CAMERA
HEAD
Head
Connection
FASTDrive
Connection
Initial State
When error occurs to CH1 while
recording
1 Yes Yes Recording
Recording will stop.
Images recorded before the error will
play back properly.
2 No No - -
CAMERA
HEAD
Head
Connection
FASTDrive
Connection
Initial State
When error occurs to CH1 while
recording
1 Yes Yes Recording
Recording will stop.
Images recorded before the error will
be played back properly.
2 Yes Yes Recording
Recording will continue.
All recorded sequence plays back
properly for CH2.