Rear Panel

The rear panel of both USB 3.0 and Cameralink models is shown below.

ZL41 Cell Back Plate Connections (Left) Cameralink versions (Right) USB 3.0 version

  1. I/O 15-Way D Type Connector

  2. 12V DC Power Connector, see Power Supply Information for more information.

  3. CL1 connector, this is the connection for the Camera Link version of the ZL41 Cell camera.

  4. CL2 connector, this connection is required for the 10-tap (double cable) Camera Link version of the ZL41 Cell 5.5 and ZL41 Cell 4.2 camera .

  5. On/Off Switch

  6. USB 3.0 Connector, this is the connection for the USB 3.0 version of the ZL41 Cell camera. It is not present on the Camera Link versions.

Multi I/O Timing Cable Pin Outs

Multi I/O Timing Cable Pinouts 15-way D type connector

1 ARM 9 Reserved
2 AUX_OUT_1 10 Reserved
3 FIRE n 11 Reserved
4 FIRE 12 Reserved
5 AUX_OUT_2 13 Reserved
6 Ground 14 Reserved
7 External Trigger 15 Reserved
8 Spare (I)    

  • External Trigger and Spare input are 5 V TTL input. By default they trigger on a rising edge.

  • Fire, Fire n, Arm, AUX_OUT_1 and AUX_OUT_2 outputs are all TTL timing outputs (please also refer to Impedance Information for information on impedance matching)

  • TTL I/O can be individually inverted via software (e.g. Solis or SDK)

  • Pins 9 to 15 are reserved and should not be used.

  • AUX_OUT_1 supplies the ‘FIRE ALL’ output by default. This is the logical AND of the FIRE pulses associated with Row #1 and Row #n (the last row read out in the image frame). Therefore the FIRE ALL pulse represents the time within a frame when all rows on the sensor are simultaneously exposing.

  • AUX_OUT_1 is also configurable as FIRE, FIRE n and FIRE ANY. The FIRE ANY pulse represents the time within a frame when any row of the image frame is exposing. Refer to Trigger Modes for the behaviour of these signals and to the SDK3 manual for configuring the AUX_OUT_1 output.

    Note
    This configurable output is only available on cameras with FPGA version numbers ≥ 20120802 and Solis versions ≥ 4.22.30001.0 (SDK users require version ≥ 3.5.30001.0).

  • AUX_OUT_2 output is reserved for future use.

  • I/O Timing Interface cable (Andor part number ACC-ACZ-05612) gives access to all of the above I/O functions (excluding Ground and Reserved).

Impedance Information

ZL41 Cell connection impedance information