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Table of Contents Part 1 Getting Started.................................................... 13 Introduction.........................................................................................................15 Summary of Chapter Information ..................................................................................... 15 Part 1, Getting Started ................................................................................................ 15 Part 2, Advanced Topics ............................................................................................ 16 Part 3, Reference ........................................................................................................ 17 Online Help ....................................................................................................................... 17 Tool Tips and Status Bar Messages .................................................................................. 17 Additional Documentation................................................................................................ 18 Chapter 1 Installing and Starting WinView/32 .................................................19 System Requirements ....................................................................................................... 19 Hardware Requirements ............................................................................................. 19 Operating System Requirements ................................................................................ 21 Your System Components ................................................................................................ 21 Installing the PCI Card Driver .......................................................................................... 23 Installing the USB 2.0 Card Driver .................................................................................. 23 WinView Version 2.5.25 and later............................................................................. 24 Installing the FireWire Card Driver .................................................................................. 24 Installing the GigE Ethernet Card Driver ......................................................................... 24 Installing WinView/32...................................................................................................... 25 Installing from the CD ................................................................................................ 26 Installing from the FTP Site ....................................................................................... 26 Custom Installation Choices ...................................................................................... 27 Changing Installed Components, Repairing, or Uninstalling/Reinstalling WinView/32 . 27 Starting WinView/32 ........................................................................................................ 28 Chapter 2 Basic Hardware Setup ......................................................................31 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 31 Basic Hardware Overview ................................................................................................ 31 Entering the Default Camera System Parameters into WinView ..................................... 33 Camera Detection Wizard .......................................................................................... 33 Entering Controller and Detector Characteristics............................................................. 37 Entering the Data Orientation ........................................................................................... 41 Entering the Interface Communication Parameters .......................................................... 42 Entering the Cleans/Skips Characteristics ........................................................................ 43 Chapter 3 Initial Data Collection .......................................................................47 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 47 Temperature Control ......................................................................................................... 48 Cleans and Skips ............................................................................................................... 49 Experiment Setup Procedure (All Controllers and Unintensified Cameras) .................... 49 Experiment Setup Procedures (Intensified Cameras) ....................................................... 52 iii iv WinView/32 Manual Version 2.6.A Data Collection Procedures (Intensified Cameras) .......................................................... 53 Data Collection Procedures (Controller-Specific) ............................................................ 53 ST-133-Controller ...................................................................................................... 53 PentaMAX Controller ................................................................................................ 55 Data Collection (Unintensified Cameras)......................................................................... 57 Chapter 4 Opening, Closing, and Saving Data Files .......................................59 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 59 Opening Data Files ........................................................................................................... 59 Saving Data Files .............................................................................................................. 62 Saving Temporary Data Files ..................................................................................... 62 Data File tab ............................................................................................................... 63 Closing a Data File ........................................................................................................... 63 Deleting Data Files ........................................................................................................... 64 Chapter 5 Displaying the Data...........................................................................65 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 65 Screen Refresh Rate .......................................................................................................... 66 Data Displayed as an Image .............................................................................................. 66 Displaying CIRCUIT.SPE .......................................................................................... 66 Changing the Brightness Range ................................................................................. 67 Brightness/Contrast Control ....................................................................................... 67 Selecting a Region of Interest .................................................................................... 68 Data Window Context menu ............................................................................................ 69 Labeling Images and Graphs ............................................................................................ 69 Data Displayed as a 3D Graph .......................................................................................... 72 Displaying Hid-lamp.spe ............................................................................................ 73 5%-95% Display Range ............................................................................................. 75 Selecting a Region of Interest .................................................................................... 76 Information box .......................................................................................................... 77 Displaying