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Alpha NIR User's Guide 412-0007-10 Ver 150
3) Execute "autorun"
4) Select "Install NI-IMAQ 2.5.1", click through default options, restart ok – this
installs the NI frame grabber software. (The NI CD included in your shipment is
not required)
5) Run the Upgrade to IMAQ 2.5.3 executable on the Alpha NIR Setup CD. The
computer will reboot again.
6) Shut down the computer completely.
7) Install the IMAQ 1422 board using standard ESD and safety procedures.
8) Restart the computer.
9) Connect your IMAQ cable to the NI 1422 100-pin connector. Connect the other
cable end to the Alpha NIR sensor head – all screw threads should be fully
engaged. For added support a connector support is included which is installed in
between the camera and the tripod adapter. When using the tripod adapter alone,
use the shorter 4-40 X 3/8" long socket head cap screws. When using the tripod
adapter and connector support together, use the longer 4-40 X 7/16" long socket
head cap screws.
10) Connect your Alpha NIR power adapter to the sensor head, which will now be
energized.
11) From your desktop, run "Measurement and Automation" – the installed NI utility.
Select OK, then double-click "Devices and Interfaces", double-click IMAQ PCI-
1422:img 0, then right-click channel 0 – select Indigo Systems, then select Alpha
NIR. This configures the frame grabber to use the proper camera driver.
12) To confirm everything is working properly at this point, click "grab". This
should result in display of a dark box in the center of the window – this is the
output of the camera without correction or gain control. Make sure the sensor
head lens aperture is open and shine a flashlight or an incandescent (fluorescent
lights have low intensity in this waveband) light into the opening. This should
result in a change in intensity in the displayed window. Close the Measurement
and Automation utility.
13) Find the folder "IMAQ Vision Deployment 6.0.3", execute "autorun", select
"IMAQ Vision 6.0 Run-Time Engine" – this installs the NI Labview
environment.
14) Find the folder "IRvista" on the Setup CD, execute "setup" – this installs the
IRvista software.
15) Create a shortcut to IRvista.exe form the folder C:\Program Files\IRvista. Drag
and drop this "IRvista.exe" shortcut onto the desktop.
16) Find the folder "settings" on the setting files CD – this folder contains the Non-
Uniformity Correction and Bad Pixel Replacement (NUC and BPR, or camera
settings) files for your camera. You should find 11 files that correspond to NUC
and BPR conditions found at various integration times from 5 microseconds to
500 msec and both high and low gain states.
17) Copy all of the camera settings files into the folder "C:\Program
Files\IRvista\Indigo Data\NUC and BPR"
18) Since writing these files onto the CD automatically changes the attributes to
"read only", once we get them copied onto your disk drive, we must change them
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