Re: [micro-manager-general] pE4000 Coolled issue

[Stephan J. <ste...@br...>]

Dear all,

I encountered the same issues that Jean-Michel described (see below) and 
was wondering whether there's any solution, in particular to the lack of 
control over switching the light on/off (point 2 below - arguably the 
most important control and one of the main reasons to use a LED light 
source).

Any suggestions are welcome!

Many thanks
Stephan

Am 01.12.2015 um 10:36 schrieb Jean-Michel Peyrin:
> Hello,
>
> While trying to control a pE4000 Coolled device on a Win7 Pro 32 bit PC
> we noticed a consistents bugs that looks intrinsic to the device adapter.
>
> 1) pE4000 controls dramatically slows down Micromanager when using (as
> suggested) the default port COM value in the hardware Configuration
> Wizard. Shifting "port timeout" to 15ms instead of 500ms seems to
> ameliorates the situation (yet this sometime generates a time ou error
> message when launching). Checking the corelog file consistently shows an
> Error message on the Coolled COM port no matter the timeout is set to
> 15ms or 500 ms. As suggested in a previous message from the mailing list
> we launches MM as administrator, and shutted down any Win7 energy saving
> preset (especially on COM port)
>
> 2) A major bug that prevent any utilization of pE4000 with Micromanager
> is that the ON/OFF light control of pE4000 is not working. Inded, In the
> Preset editor, turning the pE state to "1" actually turns the light (and
> state) ON on the pE control PAD, yet the "PreciExcite-State" in
> Micromanager control windows will consistently returns to "0".
>
> 3)  Changing wavelengths in the same LED channel is not possible.
>
> COOLLED technical service returned me that the problems arise for the
> fact that the driver was written for the pE2 – an earlier system – and
> the pE4000 was modified to work with this driver, but it is not ideal,
> especially on 32 bits PC.  According to them 64 bits PC may solves some,
> but not all  of theses issue, and they cannot fix these issues.
>
> Does anyone encountered these problem and found a solution for those.
>
> Thank you very much for your help
>
> JM
>
>
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