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Page 2 The information is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of PCO in the future. PCO hereby authorizes you to copy documents for non- commercial use within your organization only.
Page 3: Table Of Contents
Mechanical Dimensions ..........37 GigE Installation and System Requirements ....38 Image File Formats............44 Service and Maintenance..........46 Customer Service and Trouble Shooting ......47 Firmware Update.............47 Digital Camera Tools CD-ROM ........48 FAQ .................49 About PCO................51 pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 4: Introduction
• fast events in nature and machine • automobile crash tests • super slow motion movie clips • material testing • ballistics • tensile tests • airbag inflation • fast flow visualization • hydrodynamics pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 5: Safety Instructions
If liquids have penetrated the device. If, after thoroughly reviewing the instruction manual, the device is still not operating properly. If the camera has been dropped or the casing is damaged. pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 6: System Components
The accompanying CD contains (see appendix A8): • Camware: software for camera control & image acquisition • camera driver & tools • software development kit (SDK) and demo programs in C and C++ pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 7: Installation
Windows registration entries will be made automatically. After a successful installation, you will find the program file ’Digital Camera Toolbox’ in your program directory. Other helpful tools are also installed in the same file (see appendix A8). pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 8: Quick Start
If you need to change exposure time (e.g. the image is still either too dark or too bright), please go to chapter 6! If you want to record and save images, please see chapter 6 and chapter 7 for detailed information! pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 9: Camera Control For The Pco.dimax
"Camera"-Menu or by the corresponding button in the toolbar: The camera control dialog always adapts to the camera type connected. For the pco.dimax the camera control settings are spread over six property , which will be explained below.
Page 10: The Timing Sheet
Due to overhead and system times (t ) the actual max exposure time or frame rate will be shorter than expected. For precise timing, use [External Exp. Start] or [External Exp. Ctrl] mode. pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 11 In order to avoid trade-offs at maximum frame-rate use either the Busy Status signal (see chapter 6.7) or make sure that the external trigger rate follows this condition: External Trigger Rate ≤ fmax / 1.001 pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 12 There is no specified timing for the software trigger. The software trigger is not recommended for applications where an exact timing is required! Delay time is not recommended for high speed applications. pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 13 If the selected exposure time requires a lower frame-rate, the exposure time is cut to the maximum possible time at that frame-rate. Frame rate exposure time 0.465 …1279 Hz @ 62.5MHz FPS mode 2µs … 40ms 0.465 …1103 Hz @ 55MHz pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 14 However, only the master camera must be configured for the sequence trigger and trigger delay. The sequence trigger mode setting for all slave cameras must be “off”! Acquire Enable mode is not possible in camera sync mode. pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 15: The Sensor (Size) Sheet
796 872 10.9 Values are for estimation purposes only. The Camware will show the actual frame rate and estimated recording time due to selected ROI and timing values in the information box: pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 16: The Sensor (Misc.) Sheet
Electronics Temperature Display of electronics and sensor temperature. Active cooling by fan is implemented in the pco.dimax. There is no need for Peltier cooling. Due to digital temperature compensation and sophisticated electronic design the pco.dimax comes with ultra stable offset, where there is no need for extra black or current session references.
Page 17: The Camram Sheet
Pointer over the size field will show max number of images in this segment. 18 GB 32 GB max number of images @ full resolution 3154 6324 in CamRam (100%) @ HD resolution 6182 12395 Example of single segment with 100% memory usage (18 GB): pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 18: The Recording Sheet
In trigger mode [External Exp. Ctrl], the acq enbl input works very similar to the mode [External Exp. Start]. However, the acq enbl input is ignored for the edge which is closing the exposure time (started exposure will be finished accordingly). pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 19 The relation is always in terms of images. Time Stamp A time stamp can be placed into the upper left corner of the image. Content of the image will be replaced by the text. pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 20: The In/Out Signals Sheet
Minimum switch voltage rating: 5VDC Minimum switch current rating: 1mA RS485: Receiver sensitivity: +-200mV Note: termination of 120Ohms outside camera required [Filter] electrical interference filters [Polarity] active for high/low signal or rising/falling edge pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 21: Camware Features
Resolution The drop down list offers the existing image sensor spatial resolutions of all PCO camera systems. Please select the specific resolution and bit depth of the images to be opened! If double shutter images have been recorded and should be opened, “Double Shutter Mode” should be checked.
Page 22: Overview
With the "Multi Frame Window" it is possible to view all active camera images in one window. The user might select between "time" oriented or "camera number" oriented order. pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 23: The File Menu
This command should be used to import a single image into the currently active image window. Only files with the extension and format of "*.b16" (PCO proprietary binary image format) and "*.tif" (TIFF image format) can be imported. If the recorder is enabled, each imported image will be transferred to the buffer shown in the picture number.
Page 24 Here you can select an appropriate separator for the ASCII file format. Jpeg High Quality Here you can select the quality of the saved jpeg/jp2 files. High quality saves images with 100% quality. Unchecking this option will create jpeg files with 85% quality. pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 25 / disable math function Replay Speed Bar The faster replay speed is useful if large sets of image data need to be scanned. pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 26 Record with ‘Flowfile’ (for pixelfly and sensicam models) Exit This command exits the program and closes all channel dialog windows. Window positions, settings and sizes are stored in the windows registry and will be loaded again at next start-up. pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 27: The Camera Menu
1400 and 1500. It re-adjusts the lookup tables in order to display the images with the new settings best. In case the software is not able to calculate an appropriate setting, this message will be displayed. pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 28: The Acquisition Menu
The play button starts the display for a sequence as defined by the first image/last image fields and will loop until the stop button is pressed. Reverse Play If the "Reverse Play" box is checked, it is possible to play the recorded images in reverse. pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 29: The View Menu
Thus dark or bright light spots, reflections, etc. are cut off. Min/Max (Automatic) = Continuous Auto Range Crop ‘Proc config’ sheet: please see under ‘Convert Control Color’ pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 30 Due to proprietary high-end algorithms used for these image processing features, no detailed description is given here. Try it and see how the fine details will improve! pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 31 'Camera number' oriented means that the first image shown is from camera 1, then camera 2 and so on. Embedded Image Info (only for pixelfly and sensicam models) see Timestamp feature in chapter 6.6 pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 32: The Window Menu
The support files contain relevant hardware information, the log files and the PCO related registry entries. These files are moved into a zip- archive called “CWSupport.zip”, which can be found in the application folder. pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 33: The Local Menu
'left click'. Now a 'Line Diagram' opens and the length of the line (unit: pixel) is shown in a bubble and displayed in the window. Copy To Clipboard Copies the active image to clipboard. pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 34: Additional Features
Time Elapse Window If an image is recorded in soft trigger mode with an exposure time longer than 5s, a time elapse window will appear to show the remaining time of the current exposure. pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 36: A1 Technical Data
+5 … +40 operating humidity range 10 … 90 storage temperature °C range -20 … +70 data interface GigE Vision USB 2.0 Cameralink CE certified Subject to change, please refer to current data sheet. pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 37: A2 Mechanical Dimensions
Appendix Mechanical Dimensions Please contact PCO for high resolution file. pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 38: A3 Gige Installation And System Requirements
“pco.camera with GigE” and the protocol “Internet protocol (TCP/IP)” are activated for each NIC used for PCO cameras! Make sure the descriptors of your NIC are set to its maximum! [1.1] Start Camware pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 39 PCI interfaces. Finally, the NICs vary in the used chipset. Strongly recommended are chipsets from Intel. There are different ways to connect one or several PCO GigE cameras to a computer. Only some of them are introduced here: One camera system: •...
Page 40 The checkbox next to “pco.camera with GigE” is checked for activating and unchecked for deactivating. Note: It is absolutely essential that the PCO GigE driver is only activated at the specific NIC that is physically connected to your camera! In addition, just the service “pco.camera with GigE”...
Page 41 • to check, if the network is configured correctly. How does it work? First of all the camera is set to default. After that images of the PCO camera are requested with a delay of 80µs between each UDP image packet. If the image could be transferred (no lost packets), the delay is decreased and again images are requested.
Page 42 GigE does not work with maximum performance! „Packet Delay“: The delay between two UDP packets sent from a PCO GigE device to a computer. Values from 0µs to 320µs are possible. ,Max Speed Mode“: With this mode a maximum data throughput up to 100 MB/s is possible.
Page 43 21.7 11.5 11.4 Ø net data throughput 41.3 41.0 42.1 42.6 42.2 [MB/s] 77.3 83.4 96.5 100.7 88.7 Ø CPU load 15.6 14.6 16.9 17.3 15.6 with minimum configuration with recommended configuration pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 44: A4 Image File Formats
Windows Bitmap Format, b/w or color 8 bit format-images, which have been saved in BMP format can be loaded later only as 8 bit images, i.e. part of the original information (10bit, 12bit or 14bit) is lost. pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 45 Windows Media Video (WMV) is a compressed video compression format for several proprietary codecs developed by Microsoft. The original video format, known as WMV, was originally designed for Internet streaming applications, as a competitor to RealVideo. pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 46: A5 Service And Maintenance
The camera includes electronic devices, which can contain materials harmful to the environment. If the camera is to be discarded, please dispose of it in an environmentally responsible manner and use recycling facilities, where available. pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 47: A6 Customer Service And Trouble Shooting
If possible use the original packaging. Use the protection cap to protect the camera on the lens thread. Firmware Update Please contact our support team for further information and assistance! pco.dimax User’s Manual V1.01 © PCO AG, Germany...
Page 48: A8 Digital Camera Tools Cd-Rom
Appendix Digital Camera Tools CD-ROM You find all necessary and some additional software and drivers on the accompanying CD. For the pco.dimax models please select “pco.camera”. For the latest versions please check our website: Image Converter Use the PCO file converter to •...
Page 51: About Pco
Kelheim site. We deliver roughly 4.000 cameras a year to customers all over the world. As in every cutting edge technology, dialogue with the user is the main focus of PCO’s approach. Worldwide representatives, in cooperation with the in-house marketing division and technical support team, ensure that PCO camera systems are developed in step with the individual requirements of our customers.

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2 Safety Instructions

3 System Components

4 Installation

5 Quick Start

6 Camera Control for the Pco.dimax

7 Camware Features

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