I am having some trouble getting an Imperx VCE-ANEX03 frame grabber to work consistently with the LabVIEW examples provided by Imperx. I am using an old ELMO CCD camera, the most up to date firmware and drivers provided by Imperx and LabVIEW 2013.
The frame grabber and camera work fine in the image acquisition application provided by Imperx, VCE Express. However, when I try to run the LabVIEW examples provided from Imperx, sometimes I get good images and sometimes they are either all green, have horizontal black lines through them or are otherwise highly distorted. I also get an error code: VCEANCB_Snap Frame code 5006. From what I can tell VCEANCM is a dll file that drives the frame grabber, and Snap Frame is one of the functions in it, that the example is calling. I cannot find any information on what the error 5006 means. After I get this error, I cannot acquire another image with LabVIEW or the Imperx application until I restart the computer.
I don't think this is a hardware issue because everything works in the Imperx application and I have tried 3 different identical cameras with the same results.
I have tried adjusting the camera settings and gotten it to work a little better. The error occurs ~5-10% of the time that I run the program.
I emailed technical support at Imperx twice in the last two weeks and have yet to receive a response. There is a little documentation on the drivers in the SDK from Imperx, but I have not found it to be helpful.
Does anyone have any experience with this frame grabber? Any ideas what the problem may be, configuration settings? Anybody have a good contact for Imperx support?
Thanks for your help.
