Specifications

Camera interfaces

Bigeye Technical Manual V2.3.0

tinuous mode the cooling is switched off. This feature allows to reduce the

power consumption of the camera during standby. After re-enabling the IOD

mode a cooling time of approx. 4 – 5 minutes is needed.

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.

Input pin 9: open (or TTL high)  continuous operation (cooling off)

GND (or TTL low)  image-on-demand (cooling active)

Trigger input (pin 10, 11)

This input allows control of the electronic or electromechanical shutter by an

externally applied signal. It is necessary to switch the camera into image-on-

demand mode to enable direct exposure control.

The signal is level-sensitive, thus the HIGH duration directly dictates the expo-

sure time of the camera.

The current through the optocoupler (1) should be greater than 1 mA and not

exceed 20 mA:

5 - 2V (HIGH) Active exposure (only valid during IOD mode)

< 0.8 V (LOW) Inactive (falling edge starts frame output)

Note

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For more information on image-on-demand mode: see Chapter

Mode setting on page 42.

Figure 11: Trigger input diagram