Monitoring The Camera - Dalsa P-2 Series User Manual

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modes, or 0 to 1023 for 10-bit data modes.

3.18 Monitoring the Camera

The camera is equipped with a red/green LED used to display the operational status of
the camera. The following table summarizes the operating states of the camera and the
corresponding LED states:
LED state
Blinking RED
Steady RED
Blinking GREEN
Steady GREEN
Note: When more than one condition is active, the LED indicates the condition with the
highest priority. Error and warning states are accompanied by corresponding messages
further describing the current camera status.
Monitoring Tasks
The camera enters a warning state when any of camera's continuously running
monitoring tasks detects a failure. Use the
is the monitoring task and the second parameter is the enable or disable value, to display
the status of all the defined monitory tasks (if no parameter is passed) and/or to
enable/disable specific monitoring tasks.
Note: If you are performing defect detection down to a single pixel, enabling monitoring
tasks is not advisable because monitoring can occur during active video and could
potentially provide erroneous data.
The following table lists the monitoring tasks:
Monitoring
task number
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
Value
0
1
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and commands to set threshold values between 0 and 255 for 8-bit data
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Priority Camera
Status
1 Error
2 Warning
3 Progress
4 OK
Cod MONITORING TASK
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All
1 Voltage Monitoring
2 Temperature Monitoring
4 External SYNC presence
8 External PRIN presence
16 Gain Out Of Spec
Monitoring
32 Line Rate Bellow 1 Khz
Function
Disable selected task
Enable selected task
Condition
Fatal hardware failure
Monitoring task failure
Lengthy operation in progress. While
camera is blinking green, do not power
down camera or memory may be corrupted.
Healthy
command, where the first parameter
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DESCRIPTION
Enable/disable all monitoring tasks
Monitors all camera voltages
Monitors camera temperature
Monitors presence of external SYNC
Monitors presence of external PRIN
Monitors current setting of analog
gain
Monitors current line rate
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