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areaDetector / ADPICam

areaDetector driver for Princeton Instruments cameras using the PICam library
https://areadetector.github.io/areaDetector/ADPICam/PICamDoc.html
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Shutter configuration (PI-MTE3) #21

Closed ronpandolfi closed 1 year ago

ronpandolfi commented 1 year ago

I'm having trouble setting up the shutter output for a PI-MTE3. We've confirmed that it can be configured correctly via LightField.

With ADPICam, we're able to see trigger-like spikes (~2ms) on the shutter output with an oscilloscope, but can't get shutter pulses with an appropriate duration (expecting ~1s). Can you advise what we might be missing for configuring the shutter output? I expected the below settings to work:

Shutter Mode: Detector Output PICAM Shutter Mode: Normal Trigger Response: No Response Output Signal: Shutter Open Readout Mode: Full Frame Readout Control Mode: Full Frame

ronpandolfi commented 1 year ago

We traced the issue to acquire time being in ms, so the shutter pulses were much shorter than expected. See https://github.com/areaDetector/ADPICam/issues/23