External sync trigger for IMAQ 1428 not working from input trigger

[colorado kid]

I am trying to get a Basler A201b, 10bit camera to externally trigger. Here is the hardware and software that I am using:
NI-IMAQ 1428 with NIIMAQ 3.1.1
IMAQ 6804 trigger cable
LV 7.0
Basler A201b with camera link cable

I am supplying a 12Hz TTL signal as trigger input to the 1428. The camera has been set to run in trigger mode, that is free run mode has been turned off.

The camera manufacturer interface indicates that the camera is not receiving an external sync signal. If I try to snap or grab an image with MAX I get error 0xbff60022, “Did not receive all expected data within timeout period”. Also If I try to use the LabVIEW snap vi I get a similar error.

I also tried to measure the trigger on the camera link cable and am getting nothing. Should I be able to measure the trigger on the camera link cable?

Is there some way to verify that the input trigger is getting passed on through the 1428 and out to the camera? Is there some low level way to activate this feature? Note that I am getting this error on two different 1428 boards in different computes, which leads me to believe that something is not initialized correctly.

Thanks,
Keith Farnsworth

[Steffen Hoog]

Keith,
The frame grabber generates a trigger signal onboard for the camera if it receives the external signal at the Imaq A6804 cable. But Two things are necessary for that.
1.) Use a VI which configured the grabber for triggered mode. Examples are at: \\National Instruments\LabVIEW 7.1\examples\IMAQ\Imaq Signal IO.llb. Do not use MAX for triggered acquisition.
2.) You need a camera file (*.icd) which let the grabber generate the trigger signal onboard. May be you can use the icd file of the Basler A402k as template for the attributes (http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/nipc.product?pid=6469). Open the icd file and scroll to "attributes". You can find those attributes also under the Attributes-tap in MAX to configure the grabber for triggered acquisition later.

You can also use the Camera File Generator to generate a customized camerafile or to modify an icd file.(http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/nipc.specs?action=search&asid=1102)

Thanks,
Steffen Hoog

[zasilmedina]

Hello,

I have two PXI-1411 mounted on a PXI chassis, i'm using an analog camera from SenTech (stc-n63bj) and the camera file NTSC.icd. One of the cards is able to snap with no problem, but the other one is displaying an IMAQ error "0xBFF60022, Did note receive all expected data within the timeout period".

Since i'm using the same camera file and the same camera to test, what could be happening???

Hope you can help me....

Thanks...