Introduction Introduction This Bigeye Technical Manual describes in depth the technical specifications, dimensions, all pixel formats, bandwidth and frame rate related subjects. Note Please read through this manual carefully. We assume that you have read already the How to install a GigE ...
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Note Please read through this manual carefully before operating the camera. Caution Before operating any AVT camera read the following safety instructions and ESD warnings. Safety warnings Caution Electrostatic discharge The camera contains sensitive electronic components which ...
Conformity Conformity Allied Vision Technologies declares under its sole responsibility that all stan- dard cameras of the Bigeye family to which this declaration relates are in con- formity with the following standard(s) or other normative document(s): • CE, following the provisions of 2004/108/EG directive •...
Vertical binning (1 x 2), switchable gain (+ 6 dB), continuous mode (image acquisition with maximum frame rate), image-on-demand mode (triggered image acquisition) With AVT AcquireControl: BCG LUT, auto contrast, auto brightness, ana- lyze multiple regions within image, real-time statistics and histogram Digital interface IEEE 802.3 1000BASE-T (GigE Vision V1.2)
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Specifications Feature Specification Environmental air temperature 0 °C ... 35 °C Regulations CE, RoHS (2002/95/EC) Table 3: Specification Bigeye P-132B Note The design and specifications for the products described above may change without notice. Note • The right polarization of the 12 V supply voltage has to be taken into consideration.
111 mm x 90 mm x 99 mm (L x W x H); incl. connectors, without tripod and lens Mass 1410 g (without lens) Operating temperature 0 °C ... 35 °C Regulations CE, RoHS (2002/95/EC) Table 4: Specification Bigeye P-132B/C Cool, Bigeye P-132B Solar Cool Bigeye Technical Manual V2.0.0...
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• The two hexagon socket screws (M 5) in the front plate may in no case be loosened as otherwise the vacuum area is getting leaky. • The warranty becomes void in case of unauthorized tam- pering or any manipulations not approved by the manu- facturer. Bigeye Technical Manual V2.0.0...
141.75 mm x 90 mm x 109 mm (L x W x H); incl. connectors, without tripod and lens Mass 1480 g (without lens) Operating temperature 0 °C ... 35 °C Regulations CE, RoHS (2002/95/EC) Table 5: Specification Bigeye P-629B Cool / P-629B Solar Cool Bigeye Technical Manual V2.0.0...
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• The right polarization of the 12 V supply voltage has to be taken into consideration. • The warranty becomes void in case of unauthorized tam- pering or any modifications not approved by the manu- facturer. Bigeye Technical Manual V2.0.0...
Vertical binning (1 x 2), switchable gain (+ 6 dB), continuous mode (image acquisition with maximum frame rate), image-on-demand mode (triggered image acquisition) With AVT AcquireControl: BCG LUT, auto contrast, auto brightness, ana- lyze multiple regions within image, real-time statistics and histogram Video gain...
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Note • The right polarization of the 12 V supply voltage has to be taken into consideration. • The warranty becomes void in case of unauthorized tampering or any manipulations not approved by the manufacturer. Bigeye Technical Manual V2.0.0...
C-Mount Connection Ø90 UNC 1/4" UNC 1/4" max. screw depth 7 mm 4,5 mm 3 mm Gigabit Ethernet connection Power Power / Control connection Ø 9 0 Back view Figure 7: Camera dimensions: Bigeye P-132B (front/side/back) Bigeye Technical Manual V2.0.0...
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Camera dimensions Color Description Camera is operational Image-on-demand mode Power Green Power indicator Exposure input activity Frame output activity Table 7: Description of LEDs: Bigeye P-132B Bigeye Technical Manual V2.0.0...
UNC 1/4" UNC 1/4" max. screw depth 7 mm 7 mm 7 mm 7 mm Gigabit Ethernet Power / Control connection connection Power Temp Figure 8: Camera dimensions: Bigeye P-132B/C Cool and P-132B Solar Cool (front/side/back) Bigeye Technical Manual V2.0.0...
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If this LED is permanently lit during operation, then the temperature of the camera might be too high: Check the ambient temperature and ensure unhindered air flow. Table 8: Description of LEDs: Bigeye P-132B/C Cool and P-132B Solar Cool Bigeye Technical Manual V2.0.0...
UNC 1/4" UNC 1/4" max. screw depth 8 mm 7 mm 7 mm 7 mm 37,5 Gigabit Ethernet Power / Control connection connection Power Temp Figure 9: Camera dimensions: Bigeye P-629B Cool / Solar Cool (front/side/back) Bigeye Technical Manual V2.0.0...
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If this LED is permanently lit during operation, then the temperature of the camera might be too high: Check the ambient temperature and ensure unhindered air flow. Table 9: Description of LEDs: Bigeye P-629B Cool and Bigeye P-629B Solar Cool Bigeye Technical Manual V2.0.0...
Bigeye P-1100B/C Cool Ø90 F-Mount Connection UNC 1/4" UNC 1/4" max. screw depth 7 mm 7 mm 7 mm 7 mm Gigabit Ethernet Power / Control connection connection Power Temp Figure 10: Camera dimensions: Bigeye P-1100B/C Cool (front/side/back) Bigeye Technical Manual V2.0.0...
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0 °C. If this LED is permanently lit during operation, then the temperature of the camera might be too high: Check the ambient temperature and ensure unhindered air flow. Table 10: Description of LEDs: Bigeye P-1100B/C Cool Bigeye Technical Manual V2.0.0...
12V, 20 mA max. Optocoupler output 14 Line-sync output Out 5 V (at no load) Active low 15 Frame-sync 5 V (at no load) Active low output Figure 11: Camera I/O connector pin assignment (Bigeye P-132B/Cool/Solar Cool) Bigeye Technical Manual V2.0.0...
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12V, 20 mA max. Optocoupler output 14 Line-sync output Out 5 V (at no load) Active low 15 Frame-sync 5 V (at no load) Active low output Figure 12: Camera I/O connector pin assignment (Bigeye P-629B Cool/Solar Cool) Bigeye Technical Manual V2.0.0...
After attaining the end cooling temperature (- 20 °C) the current capacity goes down to approx. 1.9 ... 2.3 A. The exact value also depends on the ambient tem- perature of the camera (not for Bigeye P-132B, because it is uncooled). Bigeye P-629 The camera requires 12 V +5% at a current capacity of maximum 2.8 A.
After switching to image-on-demand mode a break of at least 635 ms has to occur before the first image exposure can take place. continuous operation (cooling off) Input pin 9: open (or TTL high) image-on-demand (cooling active) GND (or TTL low) Bigeye Technical Manual V2.0.0...
The current through the opto coupler (1) should be greater than 1 mA and not exceed 20 mA: 5 … 12V (HIGH) Active exposure (only valid during IOD mode) <0.8 V (LOW) Inactive (falling edge starts frame output) Bigeye Technical Manual V2.0.0...
After the end of image exposure the 2048 active lines of the image are transmit- ted. This image output is displayed by LED L5 at the backside of the camera. Bigeye P-1100 The exposure output indicates the active exposure time of the sensor. Usage: synchronize an external strobe light source. Bigeye Technical Manual V2.0.0...
This image output is displayed by LED L5 at the backside of the camera. Line-sync output (Pin 14) Bigeye P-132 Figure 16: Line-sync output (Bigeye P-132) The line-sync output (active low) supplies approx. 1200 mV at a termination with 75 .
Camera interfaces Frame-sync output (Pin 15) Bigeye P-132 The frame-sync output is only active in continuous operation. Figure 19: Frame-sync output (Bigeye P-132) The frame-sync output (active low) supplies approx. 1200 mV at a termination with 75 . Bigeye P-629 The frame-sync output becomes active at the beginning of an image output.
PC can be established via a standard CAT5e patch cable to a 1000Base-T compatible Ethernet adapter card. To control the Bigeye cameras use the AVT AcquireControl software or any GigE Vision V1.2 compliant 3rd party software package.
This feature is used to set the Dark time (in milliseconds). Table 12: Camera standard feature: AcquisitionControl Note Bigeye P-132, Bigeye P-1100: The TriggerMode feature has to be set to On and the timer has to be enabled via ExposureMode ...
Camera interfaces Note Bigeye P-629: The timer has to be enabled via the ExposureMode feature in order to control the exposure. Set the TriggerMode feature to On if the electromechanical shutter operation is needed, otherwise it will stay permanently open.
Peltier cooling inactive (power saving). Table 13: TriggerMode Binning Each Bigeye camera variant supports one distinct binning configuration (either 1 x 2 or 2 x 2) which can be switched on or off. This is controlled using the GigE Vision features BinningVertical and BinningHorizontal from the ImageSizeControl branch of the feature tree.
Value 1 selects 0 dB gain and Value 2 switches to +6 dB gain. AnalogControls Feature Description Gain This feature controls the selected gain as a raw integer value. Table 15: Camera standard feature: AnalogControls Bigeye Technical Manual V2.0.0...
Feature Description DeviceModeName Name of the attached camera model. DeviceID Unique 32 bit device ID of the AVT camera model. DeviceUserID User ID field. This field can be accessed (R/W) by the user to store an additional device identifier. DeviceScanType This feature specifies the scan type of the sensor (Areascan or Linescan).
(height) of the image. DecimationHorizontal Unused. DecimationVertical Unused. PixelFormat List with all available pixel formats of the camera, e.g. MONO12. TestImageSelector Enables or disables the internal test image generator of the camera. Table 17: Camera standard feature: ImageSizeControl Bigeye Technical Manual V2.0.0...
This feature is used to set the Dark time (in milliseconds). Table 18: Camera standard feature: AcquisitionControl AnalogControls Feature Description Gain This feature controls the selected gain as a raw integer value. Table 19: Camera standard feature: AnalogControls Bigeye Technical Manual V2.0.0...
Appendix CameraSpecialFeatures This feature is not available for Bigeye P-1100B/C Cool and Bigeye P-132B. Feature Description CameraTemperatureState Camera temperature state. 0 = The camera temperature is OK. 1 = The camera temperature is outside the optimum range. CameraTemperatureStateReg Camera temperature state register.