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August 30, 2012 Ver1.11 USB2.0 CMOS CAMERA ARTCAM-MI Series INSTRUCTION BOOKLET 0.36M pixels ARTCAM-036MI2 Series 1.3M pixels ARTCAM-130MI Series 3.0M pixels ARTCAM-300MI Series 5.0M pixels ARTCAM-500MI Series 9.0M pixels ARTCAM-900MI Series 10.0M pixels ARTCAM-1000MI Series ARTRAY CO., LTD.
1. Attention ■About this manual 1. Before using the camera, please read this manual thoroughly. 2. Please keep this manual reachable and always refer to the contents when needed. 3. Please contact us if the manual is lost or damaged. We will provide an replacement. 4.
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■For Safe Use Warning ●In following circumstances, please stop using the product and turn off the power immediately to prevent the risks of fires and electric shocks. If the product is defective, please contact us for repair or exchange. For your safety, please do not disassemble, modify or repair the camera on your own.
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To save the environment, we do not issue warranty in printed format. Instead, all records of the warranty periods, delivery dates and the customer information are well kept in our system. For more details, please refer to the sites below: Hardware Warranty: http://www.artray.us/download/artray_warranty.pdf - 5 -...
2. Introduction ARTCAM-MI Series is CMOS cameras for industrial use. This series adopt USB2.0 interface, so the data can be delivered to PC directly without a capture board. We provide a variety including cased cameras, board cameras which can be easily incorporated to other equipment, and so on.
・2D Measurement & Filing Software(Optional) Useful 2D measuring functions are available with the optional 2D Measuring & Filing Software - ART-MEASURE. ・Recording Software(Optional) The optional recording software - ART-REC allows the user to save movies in AVI format. ・Software Development Kit(Optional) For customer who prefers to create their own image processing software or use our camera with other applications, we provide SDK upon requests.
5. Connect the Camera 5-1 How to connect a camera 5-2 Shutter Speed Shutter speed can be changed on the standard viewer software ART-Viewer. The shutter speed is set directly on the sensor register, so please refer to the following formulas for the real exposure time.
8. External Trigger 8-1. Trigger Input ARTCAM-036MI2 / 130MI / 300MI / 500MI series are designed with external trigger. Trigger Input Circuit Camera 3.3V CPLD TRIG PC814 R1 = 2.4kΩ R2 = 10kΩ - 16 -...
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8-2-1 Trigger timing chart (ARTCAM-036MI2 series) Trigger Input TRIG Signal Reset Time Exposure Time Line Line Last Line Vertical Synchronization Signal Image Transfer (USB) Input Pulse Width Above 1ms Photo Coupler Delay 1~99μs (Subject to Input Pulse Voltage) Reset Time 6 * 1H Exposure Time Subject to Shutter Speed Settings...
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8-2-2 Trigger timing chart (ARTCAM-130MI/300MI series) Trigger Input TRIG Signal Reset Time Exposure Time Line Line Last Line Vertical Synchronization Signal Image Transfer (USB) Input Pulse Width Above 1ms Photo Coupler Delay 1~99μs (Subject to Input Pulse Voltage) 9 * 1H(ARTCAM-130MI series) Reset Time 18 * 1H(ARTCAM-300MI series) Exposure Time...
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8-2-3 Trigger timing chart (ARTCAM-500MI series) Trigger Input TRIG Signal Reset Time Exposure Time Line Line Last Line Vertical Synchronization Signal Image Transfer (USB) Input Pulse Width Above 1ms Photo Coupler Delay 1~99μs (Subject to Input Pulse Voltage) Reset Time 8 * 1H Exposure Time Subject to Shutter Speed Settings...
Especially if the PC adopts a Cypress control chip, it may not recognize the later connected bulk transfer device if the device is connected when the Artray camera is in function. This issue is hard to be solved because the problem is on the lower firmware of the control chip and the PC bios.
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