Allied Vision Technologies GX1660 manual

Alli ed Vision Techn ologies (Can ada) Inc. www.all iedvi siontec.com t el: 604 .875.8855 fax: 604 .875.8856 © 2010 Allied Vision Technol ogies Inc. All rights reserved. USE R MAN UAL January 11, 2010 GX1660 GX1660 C[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. ii Table of Co ntents Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................ ii Introduction ................................................................................................[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 1 Introduction The GX1660 series of cameras are sensitive, 66 frames per second, 2 megapixel, Gigabit Ethernet cameras based on the Kodak KAI-02050 CCD sensor. These cameras support the use of 1 or 2 gigabit Ethernet ports in a lag configuration for higher b andwidth requireme[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 2 Specifications Sensor Type Kodak KAI-02050 Sensor Shutter T ype Progressive Interline Image Resolution 1600 x 1200 p ixels Pixel Size 5.5 µ m x 5.5 µ m Optical Format 2/3 inch Lens Mount C-mount with adjust able back focus Color Sensor Filter Patte rn † Bayer Full Resolu[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 3 Suppor ted Features Imaging Modes free-running, external tri gger, fixed rate, software trigger Fixed Rate Control 0.001 fps to max imum frame rate External Trigger Dela y 0 to 60 seconds in 1 microsecond incr ements External Trigger Event rising edge, falling edge, an y edg[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-0057A-A Allied Vision Technolog ies (Canada) Inc. 4 Mechanical GX C-MOUNT[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 5 Conne ctions GX CONNECTION DIAGRAM[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 6 GIGABIT ETHERNET PORTS These ports confo rm to the IEEE 802.3 1000BASE-T standard fo r Gigabit Ethernet over copper. It is recommended that C AT5E or CAT6 compatible cabling and connectors be used for best performance. Cable lengths up to 100m are supported. For higher bandw[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 7 EXTERNAL P OWER This connection provides t he main power for t he camera. Th e camer a operates from a DC voltage be tween 5V to 24V. The current capacit y of the power suppl y can be estimated b y dividing the camera’s power requirement b y the external power voltage. It [...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 8 SYNC OUTPUT S (1 to 4) These signals are opticall y isolated and require the user to p rovide a high volt age level ( USER VCC ) and si gnal comm on ( USER GROUN D ). USER VCC can be from 5 V to 24V. I CC is a function of USER VCC and load resistor R . An ex ample of the fun[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 9 These signals only functi on as outputs and can be configured as follows: Exposing Corresponds to when ca mera is integrating light. Trigger Ready Indicates when the camera will accept a trigger signal. Trigger Input A relay of the trigger input signal used to “daisy chain[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 10 LENS CONTROL P ORT PIN FUNCTION 1 IR IS + 2 IR IS - 3 FOCUS + 4 FOCUS - 5 ZOOM + 6 ZOOM - 7 AUTO IRIS SIGNAL 8 GR OUND LENS CONTRO L PORT AS SEE N FROM BACK OF CAMERA This connector p rovides the signals necessar y to control the iris, focus , and z oom of m ost commerciall[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 11 Cleaning the Sensor DO NOT CONTACT CLEAN SENSO R UNLESS ABSOLUTE LY NECESSARY. Identifying Debris Debris on the im age sensor or o ptical component s will appear as a darkened area or s mudge on the image that does not m ove as the camera is moved. Do no t confuse this with[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 12 Adjusting t he C-m ount THE C-MOUNT IS ADJUSTED AT THE FACTORY AND SH OULD NO T REQUIRE ADJUST ING. If for some reason, the C-moun t requires adjustment, us e the following method. Loosen Locking Ring Use an adjustable wrenc h to loosen locking ring. Be careful not to scrat[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 13 Network Card Configuration Operating GigE Vision GX cameras using multiple network ad aptors The GX series cameras offer two Gigabit Et hernet p orts for image data transfer and control . Users can connect one or both ports on the GX to Ethernet adapter ports on a host comp[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 14 5. Click on “OK” to validate your change (the “Properties” windo w will close). The Property list will be different b etween different types/brand s of gigabit Ethernet inte rface cards. If "Jumbo Frames" does no t appear in this list, then you r card prob[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 15 11. Specif y a name for the Team (Lin k Aggregate Group). This shou ld be something that will distinguish this adapter from others in your system . Click “Next” t o continue. 12. Select th e two Ethernet ports to which the GX camera will be connected. These ports will f[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 16 15. Once com pleted the propert ies of the TEAM (LAG) that has just been created will a ppear. A new Network Con nections Icon co rresponding to the LAG group is created. You have no w completed the Link Aggregate Group configu ration. 16. Reboo t the system[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 17 GigE Sample Viewer and F ilter Driver o Download GigE Sample Viewer from www.allied visiontec.com . This wil l install the Sample Viewer application program, drivers, and opti onall y the Prosilica Filter Driver. The Filter Driver will improve CPU performance and is recomme[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 18 Trouble S hooting Is the camera gett ing power? The Green LED is the c amera power indicator. If u nlit, check the pow er adaptor. If possib le, swap with one that is known to work. If usin g a custom power adaptor, be s ure t he ad aptor supports the voltage and power requ[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 19 The following example is not on the same Subnet: N IC I P 169.250. 23.2 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0, Cam IP 169.254. 13.0 Subnet Mask: 255.255.0 .0. This can happen if you use a non AutoIP ran ge on your N IC and it doesn’t have access to a DHCP server. Ei ther chan ge you[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 20 All stats 0 while streami ng. Firewall likely blocking traffic • All stats 0. Likely a firewall is blocking incoming traffic. Disable your firewall. Check your camera trigger settings. M any camera trigger modes require a softw are or hardware tri gger event to capture fr[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 21 Adde ndum[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-0057A-A Allied Vision Technolog ies (Canada) Inc. 22 GX IO Schematic PIN 3. SY NC OU T 4 VDD +3.3 TL P281-4GB 7 8 10 9 PIN 9. R S-232 TX D CAMERA LOGIC SY N C OU T 2 CAMERA LOGIC SY N C OU T 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 HI R OSE H R 10A-10R-12PB TL P281-4GB 5 6 12 11 100K CAMERA LOGIC SY N C I N 2 4.7K PIN 7. U SER GR OU ND I [...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-0057A-A Allied Vision Technolog ies (Canada) Inc. 23 User Trigger Circuit Example 0.1u 10V C AM ERA POW ER U SER LOGI C SY N C OUT 4 SY N C I N 2 SN74ABT244APWR 3 5 7 9 12 14 16 18 17 15 13 11 8 6 4 2 20 19 10 1 2Y 4 2Y 3 2Y 2 2Y 1 1Y 4 1Y 3 1Y 2 1Y 1 2A4 2A3 2A2 2A1 1A4 1A3 1A2 1A1 VC C 2OE GN D 1OE 1K CABLE SIDE U SER GN D S[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-0057A-A Allied Vision Technolog ies (Canada) Inc. 24 TV Zoom Lens Connect ion FO C U S + Z OO M I R I S- FO C U S - C O MM ON FO C U S- FO C U S Z OO M- Z OO M+ C O MM ON Z OO M+ FO C U S Z OO M FO C U S + C O MM ON H I R O SE 32 4 0- 8P- C (5 0 ) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 T V Z O OM LEN S U N I PO L AR T YPE Z OO M - I R I S I R I S T [...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-0057A-A Allied Vision Technolog ies (Canada) Inc. 25 Video Iris Connect ion VI D EO SI GN AL LEN S GROU ND 12V POW ER POWER GR OU N D V I D E O A U T O -I R I S LE N S 1 2 3 4 JEI TA C ON NEC TOR 1 2 3 4 LEN S POWER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 H I R OSE H R 10A-10P-12S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 12V_POWER POW ER GR OUN D H I R [...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-0057A-A Allied Vision Technolog ies (Canada) Inc. 26 Trigger Timing Dia gram User Trigger Logic Trigger Exposure Readout Trigger Ready Imaging Tpd Trigger Latency Interline Time Expose Start Delay Trigger Jitter Idle Registered Exposure Time Readout Time N N+1 N N+1[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 27 Notes on Trigg ering Definitions o User Trigger is the trigger si gnal applied b y the user. o Logic Trigger is the trigger signal s een by the camera internal l ogic. o Tpd is the propagation del ay between the User Trigger and the Logic Trigger. o Exposure is high when th[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 28 Triggering during t he Readout Stat e o For applications requiring the fastest triggering cycle ti me whereb y the camera image sensor is ex posing and reading out si multaneousl y , then the User Trigger signal sh ould be applied as soon as a valid Trigger Read y is detect[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 29 Camer a Controls Note: Not all feat ures listed here are available o n all camera models. Acquisition This group of controls re lates to the acquiri ng of images. Trigger This group of controls re lates to how an image frame i s initiated or triggered . AcqEnd AcqEndTrigger[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 30 EdgeAny – rising or falling edge LevelHigh – acti ve high signal LevelLow – active lo w signal AcqStartTriggerMode - Sel ects if the start of acquisition should be stimulated by an external hardware trigger. See the Acquisit ionStart command for software triggering. S[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 31 SingleFrame - After an a cquisition start event, the camera will only receive a single frame trigger event. Further trigge r events will be ignored until acquisition is stopped and restart ed. MultiFrame - After an acquisi tion start event, the camera wil l receive Acquisit[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 32 DSPSubregionLeft - defines the position of left edg e of the DSP subregion. Measured in pixel s from the left edge. Defaults t o zero. DSPSubregionRig ht - defines the positio n of the right edge of the DSP subregion as measured from t he left side of the imag e. Defaults t[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 33 Auto - The exposure time wil l vary continuously accordi ng to the scene illumi nation. The Auto exposure function operat es according to the Auto and DSP controls AutoOnce - The exposure will be set once according to the scene ill umination and then remain at that setting [...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 34 Iris The GC series cameras sup port video-type auto iris lenses. This control will not appear o n GE series cameras which do not support auto i ris. All video-type auto iris lenses have a default refere nce voltage. When a voltage larg er than this reference voltage is appl[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 35 WhitebalValueRed – Red g ain expressed as a percentag e of the camera default setting. WhitebalValueBlue - Blue ga in expressed as a percentag e of the camera default setting. GigE BandwidthCtrlMode StreamBytesPerSeco nd - The default mode of bandwid th control. See the S[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 36 does not suppo rt Jumbo Packets/Frames of at least 8228 Bytes (the camera default o n power up), then you will need to reduce PacketSize parameter to mat ch the maximum supported by your network adaptor. A PacketSize of 1500 is a s afe setting which all GigEt hernet network[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 37 Mono16 - 16 bits pe r pixel, monochrome. On camera int erpolation, with luminance (Y) channel returned. For 10 bit (CMOS) or 12 bit (CCD) sensors, the data is least significant bit aligned within the 16 bit word. That is: 0000xxxx xxxxxxxx. Bayer8 – 8 bits per pi xel, raw[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 38 TimeStampFrequency – In Hz. All images ret urned from the camera are marked wit h a timestamp. TimeStampFre quency is the time base for t he Timestamp function. The image tim estamp can be useful for determining whether imag es are missing from a sequence due to missing t[...]

GX1660 User Manual 70-005 7A-A Allied Vision Technologies (Canada ) Inc. 39 FrameTrigger – Active when an i mage has been init iated to sta rt. Th is is a logi c trigger internal to the camera, which is initi ated by an external trigge r or software trigger event. Exposing – Active for the d uration of sensor expo sure. FrameReadout – Active [...]