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Installing Light Control Hardware
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Table 6 illustrates the case of using the adjacent unused light port to connect the
auxiliary light module for two cameras.
Table 7 illustrates the case of grouping the camera and primary light ports together on
the lower numbered ports, and grouping the auxiliary light ports together on the higher
numbered ports.
Your Cognex software package may also support
borrowing
a light port from another
camera port that has a camera connected but no light module. In this case, you can
connect up to four cameras, of which two cameras have two light modules each and two
cameras have no light modules. This rare configuration is illustrated in Table 8.
Camera port
Lights per
camera
Light module purpose
Connect to light port
Camera 0
2
Primary for camera 0
0
Not used
Auxiliary for camera 0
1
Camera 2
2
Primary for camera 2
2
Not used
Auxiliary for camera 2
3
Table 6.
Case 2, using adjacent light ports for auxiliary
Camera port
Lights per
camera
Light module purpose
Connect to light port
Camera 0
2
Primary for camera 0
0
Camera 1
2
Primary for camera 1
1
Not used
Auxiliary for camera 0
2
Not used
Auxiliary for camera 1
3
Table 7.
Case 3, pairing cameras together and auxiliaries together
Camera port
Lights per
camera
Light module purpose
Connect to light port
Camera 0
2
Primary for camera 0
0
Camera 1
0
Auxiliary for camera 0
1
Camera 2
2
Primary for camera 2
2
Camera 3
0
Auxiliary for camera 2
3
Table 8.
Case 4, rare configuration of borrowed light ports
