User Manual

Introduction

PIKE Technical Manual V5.1.2

Manual overview

This manual overview describes each chapter of this manual shortly.

•Chapter Contacting Allied Vision Technologies on page 12 lists AVT con-

tact data for both:

– Technical information / ordering

– Commercial information

•Chapter Introduction on page 13 (this chapter) gives you the document

history, a manual overview and conventions used in this manual (styles

and symbols). Furthermore you learn how to get more information on how

to install hardware (Hardware Installation Guide), available AVT soft-

ware (incl. documentation) and where to get it.

•Chapter PIKE cameras on page 31 gives you a short introduction to the

STINGRAY cameras with their FireWire technology. Links are provided to

data sheets and brochures on AVT website.

•Chapter Conformity on page 33 gives you information about conformity of

AVT cameras.

•Chapter FireWire on page 34 describes the FireWire standard in detail,

explains the compatibility between 1394a and 1394b and explains band-

width details (incl. Pike examples).

– Read and follow the FireWire hot-plug and screw-lock precautions

in Chapter FireWire hot-plug and screw-lock precautions on page 44.

– Read Chapter Operating system support on page 46.

•Chapter Filter and lenses on page 47 describes the IR cut filter and suit-

able camera lenses.

•Chapter Specifications on page 86 lists camera details and spectral sensi-

tivity diagrams for each camera type.

•Chapter Camera dimensions on page 50 provides CAD drawings of stan-

dard housing (copper and GOF) models, tripod adapter, available angled

head models, cross sections of CS-Mount and C-Mount.

•Chapter Camera interfaces on page 111 describes in detail the inputs/out-

puts of the cameras (incl. Trigger features). For a general description of

continued from last page

V5.1.2 13 August 2012 Changed IR cut filter to (type Jenofilt 217):

see Figure 6: Approximate spectral transmission of IR cut filter

(may vary slightly by filter lot) (type Jenofilt 217) on page 47

Pike trigger input voltage (GPIn1 and GPIn2) changed from 2 V

to 3 V at min. input current of 5 mA, see Chapter Camera I/O

connector pin assignment on page 113.

Version Date Remarks

Table 1: Document history