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Coaxpress High Speed Camera
Getting Started
First issue was installing the framegrabber in a PCIEx4 slot. It seemed to work but was complaining about not having x8 so I moved it. I'm not sure if cable order matters for the coax connections but I found an order that does and I'm sticking to it.
From here on I'm using the firmware pre-installed on the framegrabber and camera. The framegrabber indicates it needs a firmware update and I'll get to that at some point.
21:14:02.172 [WARNING] Device open with warnings: W: Firmware update required
This is the what the framegrabber reports for firmware:
And for the camera:
It looks like order of operations is very important in Vision Point. This camera comes up as 1608x400 pixels at 500fps:
If I stream data and then decrease the resolution to increase frame rate, the preview goes crazy and I just get a bunch of garbage:
This looks to me like desyncronization of the camera and framegrabber.
Similarly increasing resolution after streaming data causes mayhem as well:
If I instead change the resolution to 640x200 (which based on the label I think should give me 8000fps) as the very first thing after connecting, then I do see an increase in frame rate to 1000fps. This isn't the 8000 I expect but indicates that this is the right way to do this.