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Jon Daniels [Vibration] 		hardware:troubleshooting [2016/03/01 00:56]
Jon Daniels [Vibration]
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-Some users have reported vibrations, e.g. diffraction-size beads will appear as a diagonal smear.  Assuming you have the system on a floated air table, this is probably due to a combination of the vibration of the camera fan and the vibration-prone nature of ASI's original piezo objective movers.  Some cameras vibrate more than others, and there can be significant variability even within the same brand/type.  PCO cameras seemed to have the worst vibration initially; in mid-2015 the internal design was modified.+Some users have reported vibrations, e.g. diffraction-size beads will appear as a diagonal smear.  Assuming you have the system on a floated air table, this is probably due to a combination of the vibration of the camera fan and the vibration-prone nature of ASI's original piezo objective movers.  Some cameras vibrate more than others, and there can be significant variability even within the same brand/type.  PCO cameras seemed to have the worst vibration initially, but in mid-2015 their internal design was modified to correct this and now all three cameras seem comparable.  The exact threshold of when vibrations become noticeable depends on the experiment specifics.
  
 There are three approaches to reduce the apparent vibration: There are three approaches to reduce the apparent vibration:

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