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4.4 Update Ownership Program for Cooke I Lenses
The Cooke Owner Update program can be used to change the owner name stored in
the lens through its external interface. The program runs on Windows and MAC OS X
platforms and can be downloaded from the Cooke Optics website at:
http://www.cookeoptics.com/cooke.nsf/technical/downloads.html
The lens is connected to the PC or MAC through a serial port. If the computer does
not have a serial port, use a USB-Serial port adapter and install the correct driver.
A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is required to run the program. If it is not already
installed on your computer, it can be downloaded for free from www.java.com.
See Appendix C.1 for additional details on how to use the Ownership Update
Software.
4.5 Hyper Terminal / PuTTY - Serial Terminal Emulators for COM Ports
HyperTerminal or PuTTY can be used to communicate with a lens by connecting the
external connector of the lens to a serial port on a PC.
HyperTerminal is an application that allows terminal emulation in Windows for
certain types of devices. HyperTerminal communicates over serial connections (like RS-
232) and provides access to a text based application console. If there are no serial ports
on the PC, you can use a USB-to-Serial port converter and use device manager to
determine which COM port is emulated by the USB converter.
If there is no HyperTerminal preinstalled on your PC, it can be downloaded from the
Internet or retrieved from a Windows XP computer. [Note: Windows 7 and Vista no
longer provide HyperTerminal.] Alternatively, PuTTY can be downloaded from
http://www.putty.org/ and configured as a terminal emulator.
More detailed instructions can be found in Appendix C.3.
4.6 External Data Source Unit (EDSU) for 5I
Cooke 5I lenses have additional facilities and commands, not available to the other
lens types, which enable an external device, (called an External Data Source Unit or
EDSU,) connected to the lens’ external RS232 channel, to perform special operations.
Under normal operation, a command is sent to a lens to request information. The
lens generates a data string and sends this information to the camera interface, the