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Fan Speed
Control and
Liquid Cooling
Fans are often used to remove heat from the camera due to their convenience. However,
under demanding conditions, fan vibration isolation is insufficient for single molecule
localization, high magnification imaging or use with micromanipulators.
Kinetix solves this problem in two ways. First, a new, innovate fan mounting system was
developed that isolates fan vibration from the rest of the camera. Side by side testing with
competing products indicated that Kinetix outperforms alternatives in terms of vibration
isolation.
Secondly, the fan has variable speed control. The lower the fan speed, the lower the
vibration transferred. Kinetix provides three fan speeds.
To achieve the ultimate in low vibration performance, the fan can be completely turned
off in software. Kinetix provides liquid cooling ports for this purpose. Fan speed settings
include:
1.
High
2.
Medium
3.
Low
4.
Off (Liquid cooling)
Note: If the camera is inadvertently left on with the air and liquid cooling disabled, a
protection circuit will trip preventing the camera from overheating. This circuit disables
current to the sensor cooling system until the camera returns. In this case the camera is
unable to cool the sensor. When setting Kinetix on a flat surface, be careful to not block
the air vents.
Time Stamps
Kinetix
is able to output “metadata” that describes data associated with each frame.
Metadata contains useful information like the exposure time, ROI location and time stamps.
Metadata is inserted directly into the frame buffer and transferred together with the image
data.
Time stamps are particularly useful. Kinetix generates Driver Generated Timestamps (for
legacy support) in the host PC and Hardware Timestamps generated in the camera. The
accuracy of Kinetix
’s Hardware Timestamps is approximately 20 µsec, on
e row read time
from the sensor. This is far better than the 1 ms accuracy of Driver Generated Timestamps.
Hardware Timestamps are given in units of 1 ns.
To display Hardware Timestamps in the Micro-Manager application, metadata must be
enabled for Kinetix in the Device Property Browser. When acquiring a sequence, Hardware
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