The GigE cameras have a configuration file that sets the Analog Gain.  Today I changed the Analog Gains and Digital Gains, to show that in NLN these changes reduce the saturation of the cameras.  Once the saturation is reduced, other features in the camera image are visible.

I reverted the changes, since they only apply to NLN.  The NLN settings will most likely not work at low power, so settings for 2W and possibly 10W need to be identified, and all changes to the camera settings put into guardian, before using the gains I identified today.

To show the difference in the image quality, each attachment has the camera view with current settings on the left, and on the right is the camera view with new settings.  The analog and digital gain settings are in the title of each image.

Changes in analog gains were split about evenly between increasing and decreasing the gain.

On IMC_TRANS, even with very low analog gain and very low didgal gain, the beam was saturated.  To correct the saturation requires adding a filter to reduce the power on this camera.

Cameras I looked at today:

• BS, PR3, PR2, PRM, MC2, IMC_REFL, IMC_TRANS