Getting Started Guide: Cobra OCT Spectrometers
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Cobra 1050, Cobra 1300, Cobra 1600
Camera: SUI GL-2048
Camera Link Card: NI PCI-1433
To test your Cobra Spectrometer with a National Instruments NI PCIe-1433 card, make sure that the card
is installed in the PC and the Cobra spectrometer is connected. To test your SUI camera enabled Cobra
Spectrometer with Teledyne DALSA LX1 card, make sure the card is installed in the PC and the Cobra
spectrometer is connected as described in the Setting up the Cobra OCT Spectrometer section.
Software Prerequisites
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Labview 2012 64-bit
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NI-VISA Version 5.20
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NI Vision Acquisition Software VAS_August2012
Wasatch Photonics Specific Configuration Files
The following files are required, and are provided on an instrument specific configuration basis with your
Cobra spectrometer.
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GL2048L-10A_icd0170rev6.icd
Look for the calibration information and configuration files for your particular instrument on the USB
storage drive provided, or contact us for product support with your device serial number if these files are
needed.
Measurement & Automation Explorer
1. Copy the supplied GL2048L-10A_icd0170rev6.icd file into the ni-imaq\data directory. This is usually
located under: c:\users\public\public documents\national instruments\ni-imaq\data
2. Start NI Measurement and Automation explorer, verify
the software installation matches the screenshot shown
here. As of this writing on 2015-04-09, the installation
procedure has been tested with Labview 2012, NI-IMAQ
4.7 and NI-VISA 5.2. You may have different versions on
your system. The versions shown the right are known to
work on windows 7 and windows 8 systems.
