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USER MANUAL
December 23, 2009
GC1600 GC1600C
Page 1: ...Prosilica Inc www prosilica com tel 604 875 8855 fax 604 875 8856 2009 Prosilica Inc All rights reserved prosilica USER MANUAL December 23 2009 GC1600 GC1600C...
Page 2: ...rted Features 3 Mechanical 4 Connections 5 Cleaning the Sensor 9 Adjusting the C mount 10 Camera Installation 11 System Optimization 16 Trouble Shooting Error Bookmark not defined Addendum 21 GC IO Sc...
Page 3: ...e during shipping VERIFY ALL EXTERNAL CONNECTIONS Verify all external connections in terms of voltage levels power requirements voltage polarity and signal integrity prior to powering this device CLEA...
Page 4: ...lated I O Tpd 10ns for non isolated I O 1 3us for isolated I O Operating Temperature 0 to 50 Celsius Operating Humidity 20 to 80 non condensing Size 33mm height x 46mm width x 59mm length Weight 97g H...
Page 5: ...dge falling edge any edge level high level low Exposure Time 10 microseconds to 60 seconds in 1 microsecond increments Gain 0 to 21dB Region of Interest ROI independent x and y control with 1 pixel re...
Page 6: ...GC1600 User Manual 70 0022A D Prosilica Inc 4 Mechanical Figure 1 GC SERIES mechanical dimensions...
Page 7: ...GC1600 User Manual 70 0022A D Prosilica Inc 5 Connections Figure 2 GC SERIES connection diagram...
Page 8: ...rear view 12 Sync Output 2 non isolated The General Purpose I O port uses a Hirose HR10A 10R 12PB connector on the camera side The mating cable connector is Hirose HR10A 10P 12S This connector can be...
Page 9: ...mera will accept a trigger signal Trigger Input A relay of the trigger input signal used to daisy chain the trigger signal for multiple cameras Readout Valid when camera is reading out data Imaging Va...
Page 10: ...ommon with Power Ground however it is good practice to provide a separate ground connection for power and signaling when designing the cabling Video Iris This signal can be used to drive the video inp...
Page 11: ...er carefully using a small flat head screw driver Clean both sides of the IR filter using the same techniques as explained below for the sensor window DO NOT TOUCH ANY OPTICS WITH FINGERS OIL FROM FIN...
Page 12: ...When the locking ring is loose unthread the ring a few turns from the camera face A wrench suitable for this procedure can be provided by Prosilica P N 11 0048A Image to Infinity Use a c mount compati...
Page 13: ...s however typical Jumbo Frames are around 9000 bytes Frame size is the number of bytes per packet and the larger the frame size the less the computer CPU will be loaded due to the processing of incomi...
Page 14: ...that came with the network card o Once the driver is installed open the Network Connections Dialog as follows From the Windows desktop select start then select Control Panel then double click on the N...
Page 15: ...an IP address of 169 254 x y where x and y can be any number Press the TAB key after entering the IP address and the subnet mask will automatically be entered The subnet mask is 255 255 0 0 Click OK t...
Page 16: ...isable the Firewall for this device Click OK to save changes Gigabit Ethernet Cabling All Gigabit Ethernet cabling and connectors should be CAT5E or CAT6 compatible Cable lengths must not exceed 100 m...
Page 17: ...e recognized If the camera does not appear in the Viewer list after approximately 10 seconds then try disconnecting and reconnecting the power If it still does not appear restart the viewer If it stil...
Page 18: ...l Panel then double click on the Network Connections icon Double click the relevant network card listed or right click the relevant network card and select Properties This will open the properties win...
Page 19: ...000 If the list contains a property called Receive Descriptors then change this value to its maximum value Select OK to save properties o From the main properties dialog as in Figure 9 make sure that...
Page 20: ...er cabling known to work Configure your NIC as outlined in Gigabit Ethernet Setup For Windows It should have an IP address of 169 254 x x Subnet Mask 255 255 0 0 This is the AutoIP address range If yo...
Page 21: ...the same subnet as your NIC Camera is not listed or flashing Camera Unavailable There may be multiple NICs on your system set to the same subnet The camera can not know which card to resolve to Change...
Page 22: ...ardware trigger event to capture frames Packets are incoming but all dropping Be sure you have JumboFrames enabled on your NIC Otherwise decrease your PacketSize setting to 1500 All packets completing...
Page 23: ...GC1600 User Manual 70 0022A D Prosilica Inc 21 Addendum...
Page 24: ...S232 RXD MOCD207M FAIRCHILD 1 2 3 4 8 7 6 5 SYNC INPUT 1 VDD 3 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 HIROSE HR10A 10R 12PB 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 CAMERA INTERNAL CIRCUIT RS232 RXD LOGIC SYNC INPUT 2 SYNC O...
Page 25: ...SER POWER R1 2 7K ISOLATED GROUND 5V RECOMMENDED VALUES 12V POWER 12V_POWER 12V SYNC OUTPUT 1 RECEIVER 0 CABLE SIDE 1K 0 7K POWER GROUND R2 POWER GROUND 24V This circuit assumes a 10mA drive current I...
Page 26: ...2S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 POWER GROUND SYNC OUTPUT 2 3 3V RECEIVER CABLE SIDE POWER GROUND SYNC INPUT 2 12V_POWER The non isolated trigger circuit is connected to a Texas Instruments SN74LVC2G241...
Page 27: ...Prosilica Inc 25 Video Iris Schematic JEITA CONNECTOR 1 2 3 4 POWER GROUND 12V_POWER LENS GROUND LENS POWER 12V POWER POWER GROUND 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 HIROSE HR10A 10P 12S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10...
Page 28: ...Prosilica Inc 26 Trigger Timing Diagram User Trigger Logic Trigger Exposure Readout Trigger Ready Imaging Tpd Trigger Latency Interline Time Expose Start Delay Trigger Jitter Idle Registered Exposure...
Page 29: ...tes when the next Exposure cycle can begin such that the Exposure will end after the current Readout o Interline Time is the time between sensor row readout cycles o Imaging is high when the camera im...
Page 30: ...triggering cycle time whereby the camera image sensor is exposing and reading out simultaneously then the User Trigger signal should be applied as soon as a valid Trigger Ready is detected o In this...
