AEG CAMERA

[INFINIUM]

Is what I thought thanks,
here is what I found  about the FPA 25X256 SENSOR  :
 http://archives.njit.edu/vol01/etd/2000s/2001/njit-etd2001-080/njit-etd2001-080.pdf
In clear there is one card in the pc that control the vertical horizontal multiplexer array lost . ! in the camera  I will give it to an electronic school or somebody that like puzzles the AEG is very secretive and doesn't give any info's

[Fraser]

Further to my last, Inam still unclear whether your controller is a true PC or looks like a PC ? If a true PC, it may have used a relatively common Video capture card and so such may still be available on the used market. Sadly details of the card chipset will not be obvious and a look in the operating system drivers would be required. If the unit contained a built in video monitor, it could just be a VGA signal system so a standard modern monitor could be used. As I say, pictures help us !

Many years ago I was dealing with a $300K specialist system that had a video fault. There was no support for the system so I delved inside to investigate the design. It turned out to be an Intel 486 based industrial mini PC at the heart of the unit with various sub systems hung off of it. The fault was on the ISA video card and even professional rework at a lab could not fix it. The card looked very large and complex compared to similar cards of the time. I started studying the video card and realised that it was really just an ET4000 based card with lots of memory. I did not own the unit but I knew I had an ET4000 video card in one of my home PC's. I donated it to the cause and the equipment fired up perfectly with no driver issues or complaints. The application did not need a large video memory anyway. We could possibly have installed drivers for another type of video card but this was no ordinary equipment or PC. The Operating System was very complex and heavily modified so sticking with the standard OS build was deemed prudent ! Sometimes with PC Cards, it is the chipset that is important rather than the exact card model or maker.

So for the 'cost' of an ET4000 video card the system was saved. I might add that the ET4000 card was long obsolete at that time and hard to source. I just fitted an S3 card in my PC in its place as I had lots knocking around.

[Fraser]

I just saw your last post. Oh dear that is bad news. If the timing signal generation card is missing you will not be able to bring this unit back from the dead easily.

Fraser

[Hydron]

Well looking on the positive side, I'm sure there is fun stuff you can do with a cryocooler (make some liquid oxygen then some serious fire?  ), and you also have a bunch of optics to play around with if you find another thermal imaging system.

[Fraser]

Sadly, not so positive I regret to advise.

The Stirling Cooler is only rated to cool a very small mass within a vacuum Dewar. Very low powered. The Lenses are coated for Medium Wave (I think) so not suitable for Longwave applications

Sadly these systems are pretty much Museum pieces. Impressive fromma historical perspective, but sadly hard to maintain without parts supply.

Fraser

[INFINIUM]

Anyway is a pleasure  to play like children  and  :-DDso old!
and have so many people help me , here in  this address  in California :  http://www.seir.com/detcam.htm
I learned how the sensor camera works , I was still thinking in the old Orticon vacuum tubes  cameras with horizontal and vertical oscillators , this people made for the government because is very expensive PCB and modules for the sensors ,multiplexors, etc.
The image computer is not a PC Normal is a box with the modules control and XX?
I will put a photo soon.
I learned a lot here and still I am thinking in using the expensive Lents in a chip camera from ALDI and see what happened! by mistake I made a police car photo and I saw one red light in the telephone camera  ,later the police told me when I asked that they have infrared cameras in the periscopio even when the car stop to control the parking nightmare in this country! in New ZELAND is worst  they have 4 cameras in one car that runs even at 100 klm  hour  in the police program here I saw it.

[INFINIUM]

  This is the module that  was attached to  the  camera , now I think is inside the cameras thanks to the AMAT  machines that made chips smaller  ... In the plastic bag where I keep the screws ..the video module that control the sensor multiplex is not any more !
also the cable from this module to the screen the red line is gone?