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Using a Phantom Camera as the Master Clock Source for Serial Connected
Phantom Cameras
The application shown below is that of the Master camera forwarding the f-sync signal, serially, to
the Slave cameras.
Serial Camera Application
The application shown below is that of a Multi-IOIOI or Multi-IOIOG unit forwarding the f-sync signal
from the Master camera, in parallel, to the Slave cameras.
Multi-IOIOI or Multi-IOIOG Application
CAUTION
When utilizing the f-sync feature with this application, all cameras must be supplied an
external trigger. If a soft-trigger is used to trigger the cameras, Vision Research cannot
guarantee that the cameras will remain synchronized.
1.
Click the Live Control Panel Tab.
2.
Click on Advance Settings.
3.
Click the down-arrow to the right of the Sync Imaging field, then
4.
Selected the Sync Imaging clock sources as follows:
a.
Internal for the master clock source Phantom camera, then
b.
External for all other slave clock source Phantom cameras.
When set to Internal the camera's internal crystal oscillator is used to drive the camera's
sample rate.
When set to External mode the camera uses an externally supplied pulse to drive the
camera’s sample rate. The external input must be a TTL pulse, with a frequency up to the