User's Guide to the Prime Focus Camera


Table of Contents


Introduction
Description
Hardware Overview
Software Overview
Detector Characteristics
Plate Scale and FOV
Filters
Count Rates
PFCam User Interfaces
Dashboard
Top-end Interface
CCD Interface
Soundserver
Observing with PFCam
Starting the Software
Observing Hints
Illustrations
3-D representation
2-D representation
CCD diagrams
PFCam layout

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Soundserver

The PFCam Soundserver (eventsounds) is used to generate sounds for different exposure events (e.g. Exposure Begin or Readout End). This piece of software is not required for using PFCam, but is very helpful.

There are four exposure events for which sounds can be generated: Erase Begin, Exposure Begin, Readout Begin, and Readout End. The checkbox to the left of each exposure event determines whether the sound is played or not (a red checkbox means the sound is played).

A large selection of sounds are available from the pulldown menus. You may test play a sound by right clicking on the sound event name (e.g. EraseBegin).

A particular configuration of sounds may be saved for future use by clicking on File - Save... and saving to a file of your choosing (please save the file to your subdirectory in /u/user/observers/). This file can be loaded by clicking File - Load....