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Here is what it's all about. This is a picture of
my Texas Instruments TC245-40 CCD chip. This was taken through
the optical window on the front of the camera.
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During the process of adding the LDC modification I decided to do
a little re-engineering. Here and in the next few pictures you
can see the changes made. I was having problems concerning the
original design in respect to the coax cable and the ribbon cables
leading from the interface box to the preamplifier on the
camera. The issues I had were that the cables were to short
and the whole camera was awkward to work with because the cables are
always attached. Also I was always concerned with breaking a
connection somewhere especially with the ribbon cable because it is
very delicate. In this picture you can see that I added a
little box on top of the box containing the preamp card. On
this side you can see my new coax connection. Now I can easily
connect and disconnect the coax during setup and disassembly.
This has been a big improvement for my whole operation.
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Here you can see the other side of my camera. I eliminated
the two ribbon cables and used a single 25 wire Shielded Twisted
Pair cable. Putting a 25 pin connecter on the extension box
and making the new cable has also helped to greatly improve setup
and disassembly.
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Here is an inside look of my extension box. You can see
how I cut a hole in the top of the bottom box and ran the wires
up connected them to the appropriate connector.
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Here is a top down view of the interface box. You can see
the coax and STP cable connected.
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Here is a top down view of the inside of my power
supply. As you will see my supply is straight from the
book. It even looks like the pictures in the book.
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This is the a view of the right side of my power
supply. The best heat sink I could find was the flat piece of aluminum
that you see in the picture. This supply has worked flawlessly
for me, it is a very well designed supply.
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Here is a picture of the left side of my power supply.
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