User Manual

Controlling image capture

PIKE Technical Manual V5.1.2

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In this case the camera can resynchronize the horizontal clock to the new trig-

ger event, leaving only a very short uncertainty time of the master clock period.

Model Exposure start jitter

(while FVal)

Exposure start jitter

(while camera idle)

Pike F-032  4.9 μs  375 ns

Pike F-100  8.2 μs  1.65 μs

Pike F-145  16 μs  2.9 μs

Pike F-145-15fps  30 μs 5.4 μs

Pike F-210  14.25 μs  1.8 μs

Pike F-421 15 μs 1.65 μs

Pike F-505 17 μs 5.7 μs

Pike F-1100 single tap: 141 μs

dual tap: 74.5 μs

7.64 μs

(single+dual tap)

Pike F-1600 single tap: 177 μs

dual tap: 95.7 μs

13.6 μs

(single+dual tap)

Table 78: Jitter at exposure start (no binning, no sub-sampling)

Note

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• Jitter at the beginning of an exposure has no effect on

the length of exposure, i.e. it is always constant.