Andor3 SCMOS issue

[Martin Schorb]

Dear all,

so far I've had no success in getting our Andor Neo Camera working using
MicroManager (both 1.4.6 and the current nightly build on Windows7
32bit). Since there is no instructions on the device wiki yet I decided
to post my problem. "Andor3" appears in the hardware configuration
wizard but when it's selected and I want to advance to accept the
configuration I get an error message stating that "the specified module
could not be found." and "Unable to load library: file not accessible or
corrupted."
I have the most recent Andor SDK3 installed at C:\Program Files\Andor
SDK3 as well as the Bitflow drivers at C:\BitFlow SDK 5.30. Do I need to
move or create any kind of library/configuration file somewhere?

Thanks for your help
Martin


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[David Gault]

Hi Martin,

If during the SDK3 installation you selected the 'Add to path' option then it should work without any need to copy libraries.

If this option was not selected then you can either manually add the SDK3 folder to your Path or copy the following dll's into your MicroManager directory:
Atcl_bfbi.dll
Atcore.dll
Atdevregcam.dll
Cc3270mt.dll

With Thanks,
David Gault

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Schorb [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: 26 October 2011 14:15
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [micro-manager-general] Andor3 SCMOS issue

Dear all,

so far I've had no success in getting our Andor Neo Camera working using
MicroManager (both 1.4.6 and the current nightly build on Windows7
32bit). Since there is no instructions on the device wiki yet I decided
to post my problem. "Andor3" appears in the hardware configuration
wizard but when it's selected and I want to advance to accept the
configuration I get an error message stating that "the specified module
could not be found." and "Unable to load library: file not accessible or
corrupted."
I have the most recent Andor SDK3 installed at C:\Program Files\Andor
SDK3 as well as the Bitflow drivers at C:\BitFlow SDK 5.30. Do I need to
move or create any kind of library/configuration file somewhere?

Thanks for your help
Martin


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[tomib]

Dear David,
I encounter the same problems as Martin, but I was told, that the SDK3 is not needed to make the camera work. So I tried different night builds, even some, which worked with other groups (as Martin), but no success.
Is it possible to download these files separate or can you mail me these?
(I use WinXP pro, latest build).

Thanks for help

Thomas

[tomib]

tomib wrote

Is it possible to download these files separate or can you mail me these?
(I use WinXP pro, latest build).

Dear DAvid,
maybe I was a bit to quick with my question, I found the files in the andor-solis folder and moving this to the micro-manager folder, I could make the camera to work.
Nevertheless, it was not responding to exposure change and had no binning possibilities, do I have to care about other library files aswell?

Thomas

[David Gault]

Hi Thomas,

> maybe I was a bit to quick with my question, I found the files in the
> andor-solis folder and moving this to the micro-manager folder, I could make
> the camera to work.
> Nevertheless, it was not responding to exposure change and had no binning
> possibilities, do I have to care about other library files aswell?

There shouldn't be any other libraries required. The current release of the Neo has not yet implemented on camera binning which is why this feature is not available. It will be made available at a later date. If the exposure time is not responding it may be because the exposure entered is out of range. For example in overlap or external trigger mode your minimum exposure will be limited to the readout time for a frame.

With Thanks,
David Gault

-----Original Message-----
From: tomib [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: 28 October 2011 12:30
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [micro-manager-general] Andor3 SCMOS issue


tomib wrote:
>
> Is it possible to download these files separate or can you mail me these?
> (I use WinXP pro, latest build).
>
>
>
Dear DAvid,
maybe I was a bit to quick with my question, I found the files in the
andor-solis folder and moving this to the micro-manager folder, I could make
the camera to work.
Nevertheless, it was not responding to exposure change and had no binning
possibilities, do I have to care about other library files aswell?

Thomas

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