Smartek Vision Giganetix GC Series User Manual page 77

In each setup, the camera and its heat conductor are exposed to the environment temperature of 22.5
until all match (1). As soon as the camera is powered (2) it starts to heat immediately (3) and reaches
its maximum after around one hour (4). The difference in temperature between the sample setups is
significantly; the camera which is not mounted to any heat conductor after one hour in an environmental
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camera temperature drops about 12 to 15
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Figure 60: Example of heat up behavior of a camera with different thermal connections
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