IMAGER TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Camera
  • KEO Consultants custom made telecentric optics (3-inch)
  • Photometrics Series 300 camera head
  • 512 x 512 pixel front illuminated, scientific-grade CCD w/VIS-AR Coating (SITe 502A Grade1)
  • Termoelectric cooling of CCD (passive air)
  • F-mount with 1-inch shutter
  • 16-bits at 200 kHz
  • Digital Camera Controller (standard)
  • Photometrics HCK for Linux RedHat 6.0
• CPU (U of C #270713)
  • Operating System: RedHat 6.0 Linux
  • Intel Pentium III 450 MHz
  • Award BIOS 05/10/99-i440BX-P2B-S-00 [ASUS P2B-S ACPI BIOS Rev 1009]
  • ASUS P2B-S w/on-board SCSI (Adaptec AIC-7890 Ultra 2)
  • 128 MB PC-100 SDRAM DIMM
  • Creative Riva TnT2 32 MB Video Card
  • 20 GB Quantum Fireball CX Hard Disk
  • Toshiba 40x CD-ROM
  • Seagate DDS-3 DAT Drive (ARCHIVE)
  • Imation LS-120 Superdisk Drive
  • APC Back-UPS 650 PSU
  • Cyclades Cyclom 8YoPCI+ Serial Ports Card
  • 3C905C-TXM Etherlink 10/100 PCI NIC
  • Photometrics Series 300 PCI Interface Card
• Timing
  • NTP v4 running under Linux (better than millisecond accuracy)
  • Trimble Palisade Smart GPS Antenna, Developer's Kit
• Evironmental Monitoring and Control
  • B&B Electronics 232DRIO RS-232 Digital Relay I/O Module for cycling mains power to camera (in case of emergency)
  • Dallas Semiconductor DS1820 Digital Thermometers with the Dallas 9097U-S09 serial ports' adapter and the Linux Driver (v.2) from Brian at Nexus Computing. We are using the RRDtool Round Robin Database by T. Oetiker compiled under Linux.

TS TRONDSEN Wed Jul 19 14:06:51 MDT 2000