Installation guide

Unibrain Fire-i digital camera Quick Installation Guide
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General Tips
Daisy Chaining your Fire-i™ Digital Camera
Your Fire-i™ Digital camera can be daisy chained, as shown in the photo.
A great advantage of that structure is that all the cameras are powered from one power supply located
anywhere on the 1394 bus. This could be the 1394 adapter in case of a computer or a DC adapter
connected to one of the cameras or even a DC powered repeater connected somewhere on the bus.
Note: Multiple camera operation is supported in Windows and Linux; you will need special software to achieve this in Mac
OS X.
Powering the camera
The operation status of the camera is indicated by a front LED.
When the LED is green the camera is correctly connected and in standby mode, ready for use.
When the LED is orange the camera is operating
(streaming).
When the LED is green the camera is correctly
connected and in stand by mode, ready for use.
Fire-i™ Digital Camera is powered by the FireWire bus DC voltage, coming from host adapters or other
FireWire devices connected with 6-pin cables.
Fire-i™ Digital Camera is provided with a DC power input jack connector that can be used when the FireWire
connection does not provide DC power. This happens typically:
• when the FireWire bus is converted to a 4-pin connection;
• when in 6-pin, no powering device is present, even from the FireWire interface. This is the case
when using Card Bus FireWire adapters or on some laptops with built-in interface.