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Spyder3 S3-14 and S3-24 Monochrome Camera User's Manual
03-032-20117-01
Teledyne DALSA
sensor w ith a scratched w ind ow w ill norm ally have brighter p ixels ad jacent to d arker p ixels. The location
of these p ixels w ill ch ange w ith the angle of illu m ination.
Cleaning the Sensor Window
Recommended Equipment
Glass cleaning station w ith m icroscop e w ithin clean room .
3M ionized air gu n 980 (
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Ionized air flood system , foot op erated .
Sw ab (H UBY-340CA-003) (
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Single d rop bottle (FD-2-ESD)
E2 (Eclip se op tic cleaning system (
Procedure
Use localized ionized air flow on to the glass d u ring sensor cleanin g.
Blow off m obile contam ination u sing an ionized air gu n.
Place the sensor u nd er the m icroscop e at a m agnification of 5x to d eterm ine the location of any
rem aining contam ination.
Clean the contam ination on the sensor u sing one d rop of E2 on a sw ab.
Wip e the sw ab from left to right (or right to left bu t only in one d irection). Do this in an overlap p ing
p attern, tu rning the sw ab after the first w ip e and w ith each su bsequ ent w ip e. Avoid sw ip ing back
and forth w ith the sam e sw ab in ord er to ensu re that p articles are rem oved and not sim p ly
transferred to a new location on the sensor w ind ow . This p roced u re requ ires you to u se m u ltip le
sw abs.
Discard the sw ab after both sid es of the sw ab have been u sed once.
Rep eat u ntil there is no visible contam ination p resent