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frelon.mac
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Description:
    Frelon CCD-camera control macros. OBSOLETE
Documentation:
    DESCRIPTION
    That Frelon CCD Camera delivers images through the SDV bus. The Camera is controlled (start, stop, preset...) through the Serial Line. The maximum presetable exposure time is 1.7 second, but you can easily overcome that limit by hard-gating the camera, eventually coupled to a shutter, with the Vct6 Timer. This is automatically done from standard scans command and general camera commands.

    See also %{%<a HREF=camera_doc.html>camera.mac</a>%}%.

    SETUP
    The work station must be a Sun Solaris.
    SPEC config must declare:
    CCD-like device type SDV Digital Camera Interface.
    SERIAL interface to which the camera control box is connected, 9600 Baud, raw mode.


    DEPENDENCIES
      - The file frelon.mac has to be read in
        it uses: camera.mac
    


Macros:
    f3setup
    Usage: f3setup [serline] [sleep] [expos] [prefix] [vct6]
    Set up the camera and the macros.
     [serline]: configured serial line number in spec config.
     [sleep]:   sleep time for serial line output in ms.
     [expos]:   exposure time in s.
     [prefix]:  file prefix to store images.
     [vct6]:    vct6 channel device server name.  
    
    That camera is then addressable from scans and standard camera commands. see camera.mac

    f3settime
    Usage: f3settime [exposure]
    Presets the camera exposure time.
    Maximum is 1.7 seconds.

    f3menu
    Usage: f3menu
    Frelon Menu to talk directly to the camera controller. A lot of parameters can be configured this way.

    f3live
    Usage: f3live
    Reads in images one by one in an endless loop. hit "~" key to exit, or control-C.

    f3takemem
    Usage: f3takemem
    Reads in one image.

    f3sendfile
    Usage: f3sendfile
    Sets the camera up using a special configuration file.

Internal Macros:
    f3_vct6start
    Usage: f3_vct6start
    Starts counting on the Vct6.

    f3_vct6stop
    Usage: f3_vct6stop
    Stops counting on the Vct6.

    f3_flush
    Usage: f3_flush
    Flushes data away from the serial line.

    f3_vct6init
    Usage: f3_vct6init
    Sets the vct6 to gate out the camera.

    f3_init
    Usage: f3_init
    Sets the camera in one by one image mode

    f3_dump
    Usage: f3_dump
    Flushes data away from the serial line and prints out those data.

Filename: frelon.mac
Author: FRELON.MAC - ICNTL - February 1996
 Changed 96/3/27 to use the more general camera.mac features.
Last mod.: 25/04/2008 10:09 by rey