RTC
®
5 PC Interface Board
Rev. 1.9 e
5 Installation And Start-Up
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5.4 Installing the RTC
®
5 Software
Additionally to installing the drivers, the RTC
®
5
software must be installed (copied or unzipped onto
the PC’s harddisk). The following files are required:
•
RTC5Dll.dll
or
RTC5DLLx64.dll
(Win32- or Win64-based application-support DLL
file)
•
RTC5OUT.out
(DSP program file)
•
RTC5RBF.rbf
(firmware file)
•
RTC5DAT.dat
(binary support file)
• (
*.CT5
) (correction file/s)
The files are included in the RTC
®
5 software package.
For easy identifying and archiving of different
software versions, some of the files are also delivered
zipped (the zip file names
RTC5<..>_<Version>.zip
include the version numbers).
To install the RTC
®
5 software, follow these steps:
Copy or unzip the files
RTC5Dll.dll
(or
RTC5DLLx64.dll
),
RTC5OUT.out
,
RTC5RBF.rbf
and
RTC5DAT.dat
(of desired version) to the harddisk
of your PC
(1)
.
When replacing individual software files, note
that differing program versions cannot be
arbitrarily combined with another (each zip file
includes a text file with corresponding version
information).
Copy the correction file(s) (
*.CT5
) to the harddisk
of your PC (existing correction files can still be
used; do not overwrite customized correction
files!).
SCANLAB recommends storing these files in the
directory in which the application software will be
started. When loading the correction files, you’ll then
only have to provide the filename without needing to
specify a path.
5.5 Safe Start-up and Shutdown
Sequences
To assure safety during start-up, turn on the compo-
nents of your laser system exactly in the following
order:
(1)
Turn on the PC containing the RTC
®
5 control
board and start up the control software.
(2)
Turn on the desired peripheral equipment.
(3)
Turn on the power supply for the scan system
.
(4)
Turn on the laser.
When shutting down the laser system, turn off the
components exactly in reverse order:
(1)
Turn off the laser.
(2)
Turn off the scan system’s power supply
.
(3)
Turn off the peripheral equipment.
(4)
Close the control software and turn off the PC
containing the RTC
®
5 control board.
(1) As of version DLL 527, MS Visual Studio runtime libraries for C
and C
++
are no longer necessary.
Danger!
• While the PC is turned on and off, short-term
level variations at the RTC
®
5 board’s output
ports, for instance short-term arbitrary varia-
tions of the laser control signals can occur.
Therefore always observe the above listed start-
up and shutdown sequences. Otherwise there is
the risk that the laser unexpectedly turns on for
a short term.
• Always turn on the scan system after the PC and
control software and turn it off prior to the PC
and control software. Otherwise arbitrary scan
movements of the scan system could occur.
Always turn on the laser as the last component
and turn off the laser as the first component.
Otherwise there is the risk that the laser beam
might be deflected in an uncontrolled direction.
!
