Controller ensures stable machine vision lighting

Featuring an enormous performance density and housed in a rugged, compact aluminium enclosure measuring only 74x56x21mm, the compact industrial-grade design of the digital lighting controller makes an immediate impression. A microprocessor monitors the lighting control function, ensuring stable lighting conditions with up to 95% efficiency. The universal digital inputs and industrial-grade standard connectors are compatible with SPS, NPN, PNP and TTL signals, making the controller easy to integrate into any system.

All types of high-performance LED lighting can be operated with the controller in continuous or flash mode. Digital technology guarantees the reproducibility of the lighting settings. Rotary switches on the device are used to manually adjust the lighting parameters. Lighting parameters can be software defined via the USB port and Web interface. Besides the two digital inputs, the controller also has two SPS-compatible digital outputs which can be used to poll the operating state and trigger cameras or lag-free switching operations.

The vicolux DLC3005 digital lighting controller has an operating voltage range of 10-30V and flash times from 20µs to 300ms which can be configured with a maximum trigger frequency of 1kHz. The status indicators on the controller front panel provide information on the operating state.

Two versions of the DLC3005 are available, either for direct mounting in the system or for attachment to a mounting rail.