Specifications

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A Gigabit Ethernet port (1000Base-T) on the receiving computer is necessary.
1. Connect the camera with the appropriate data cable to the computer.
2. Plug the 15-pin connector of the power supply to the camera and switch
on the power supply.
Camera control commands
To configure the internal image processing a serial command interface is pro-
vided. By default this command interface is internally routed to the Gigabit
Ethernet port, but the RS232 signals at the 15 pin D-SUB jack may also be used.
To access it, a serial terminal program employing the PC’s RS-232 COM port is
required.
For Gigabit Ethernet the camera functions are controlled via GigE Vision fea-
tures. This GigE Vision features are internally mapped to direct camera control
signals or the serial commands accordingly.
If the serial interface is routed over the 15 pin D-SUB jack, then e.g. HyperTer-
minal, being part of Microsoft® Windows® deliveries, might be the choice to
manually control the camera.
AVT provides the software AcquireControl: this can operate the camera’s serial
port inband via the Gigabit Ethernet interface or externally via PC standard COM
ports. Type <CTRL>+Y to get a camera control terminal window there.
By default the serial interface uses the following parameters:
• 115200 Baud
• 8 data bits
•1 stop bit
• No parity
• No handshake
The baud rate is factory-adjusted to 115200 but can also be configured to other
values (see Chapter Advanced parameters and commands on page 43).
Each command consists of a command letter, followed by an equality sign and
a parameter value in hexadecimal number representation. The command letter
is case sensitive. Hexadecimal values are always upper case and are 1 to 4 digits
long. The command is activated by a carriage return ([CR], ASCII character num-
ber 0x0D).
Note
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Refer to the corresponding control and command chapters
throughout this manual to learn more about the GigE Vision
feature mapping.