USER MANUAL
VTR1 Strobe Light
Revision 4
Gardasoft Vision Ltd
Trinity Court, Swavesey
Cambridge, CB24 4UQ. UK
Tel: +44 1954 234970
Fax: +44 1954 231567
Web:
www.gardasoft.com
Страница 1: ...USER MANUAL VTR1 Strobe Light Revision 4 Gardasoft Vision Ltd Trinity Court Swavesey Cambridge CB24 4UQ UK Tel 44 1954 234970 Fax 44 1954 231567 Web www gardasoft com...
Страница 2: ...f this equipment cannot cause any dangerous situation or significant financial loss to occur Deliberate acts of endangerment and vandalism are not covered by this document and must be considered by th...
Страница 3: ...as described in Configuration Commands Section 9 Visit www gardasoft com for application notes on this product There is also a Support page which has information on troubleshooting problems 2 1 Summar...
Страница 4: ...he section on Mounting the VTR1 Section 5 Do not exceed the power ratings given in the manual 3 2 Electrical The internal circuit exceeds 46 7V but should not exceed 60V Pulse peak voltages above 46 7...
Страница 5: ...Disclaimer This information is for guidance only Installers must perform their own risk assessment specific to each installation While Gardasoft Vision has taken every care in the provision of this in...
Страница 6: ...R PW TF 2 Where HD Heat dissipation W PW Strobe pulse width seconds TF Maximum trigger frequency Hz BR Brightness of the light output Given the range of ambient temperatures and radiated sunlight the...
Страница 7: ...put from VTR1 Yellow Ethernet RX RS232 RX input to VTR1 Green Ethernet RX RS232 GND Orange TRGO TRGO Purple TRGO TRGO 6 1 Power Supply Choose a PSU that limits its output current by design by setting...
Страница 8: ...nal surge protection should be provided 6 2 Trigger Input Option There is an optional opto isolated trigger input The opto isolator isolates voltages up to 50V Signal Function TRGI ve Trigger input ve...
Страница 9: ...50mA by the external circuit The forward voltage is less than 2V When the output is logic 0 off a voltage of up to 24V can be blocked 6 3 1 Ethernet Option The Ethernet connection is 10BaseT operating...
Страница 10: ...set up to 100 but only for short periods and at low duty cycles so that the lighting does not overheat and get damaged In pulse mode the duty cycle is limited by ignoring triggers which are too soon a...
Страница 11: ...er An internal timer is available for continuous triggering in pulse mode The period of this timer is configurable Note that the internal timer is mostly used when synchronising a camera using the tri...
Страница 12: ...idth exposure control of the camera The trigger timing for the light and camera can be adjusted relative to each other This output is triggered at the same time as the light strobe output The delay an...
Страница 13: ...ties From the list select Internet Protocol TCP IP press Properties If Obtain an IP address automatically is set then DHCP is probably used However there may be an alternative fixed IP address on the...
Страница 14: ...On the third it is a reply to a single IP address An enquiry message is a UDP packet from source port 30310 destination port 30311 with the message body Gardasoft Search 8 bit ASCII 13 characters The...
Страница 15: ...e configuration pages 9 2 General Setup Page The General Configuration page allows the webpage protection password to be set or cleared and the internal trigger to be set up Also any Ethernet command...
Страница 16: ...command has been completed It is recommended that the host waits for the symbol before sending the next command UDP communications are not guaranteed to arrive so the host software should cope with lo...
Страница 17: ...running in the VTR1 VR This command returns the firmware version For example VTR1 HW001 V001 Set switched mode The output is set to switched mode at a percentage of full brightness RW1 s Where s sett...
Страница 18: ...e internal trigger to 1 second 1Hz Save the settings to memory AW The results of the RW RT RE TT commands are all saved Once the settings are saved to memory they are then retained when the unit is sw...
Страница 19: ...e Where v event value 32 to 47 Lighting error code Clear any Errors GR If Ethernet messages are not enabled the last event or error number can be read by this command If there was a lighting error the...
Страница 20: ...ear any error condition EY EY65 66 Set webpage password to AB VR VR Read the firmware version RW RW1 50 Set optical intensity to 50 switch mode RT RT1 3 100us 50 Set light to strobe with 3ms pulses de...
Страница 21: ...aximum ripple 10 Other power supply options available Trigger Input Opto coupler input 0V to 2V is a logic 0 5 to 24V is a logic 1 drawing between 3 5 and 22 5mA Trigger Output Opto coupler transistor...
Страница 22: ...tions The minimum pulse delay for the light pulse output is about 2us When using the retrigger delay the minimum delay is around 5us For pulse widths less than approximately 100us fault detection does...
Страница 23: ...ngs to EEPROM Err 27 Can t read Ethernet settings from EEPROM so these may be incorrect Err 33 The VTR1 is too hot The VTR1 has a thermal cut out that operates at about 65O c to 70O c depending on con...
Страница 24: ...Up to 300W per steradian output power Infra red 740nm 850nm 940nm and white options RS232 and Ethernet options Trigger input and trigger output options 12 degree and 30 degree beam angle options VTR2...
