Falcon 3 support » History » Revision 3
Revision 2 (Anchi Cheng, 07/23/2018 05:20 PM) → Revision 3/5 (Anchi Cheng, 07/23/2018 05:20 PM)
h1. Falcon 3 support h2. Requirement from camera manufacture: * Krios 2.9 or Talos/Arctica equivalent software version. * Advanced TEM Scripting h2. Required leginon version: * 3.4 and above h2. Extra Package and Installation |_.program/package|_.notes| |TEMAdvancedScripting.dll |AdvancedTEmScripting.dll |(Should come with the microscope)| {{include(comtypes installer)}} {{include(comtypes_installation)}} You should have <pre> TEMAdvancedScripting </pre> h2. instruments.cfg * Falcon3 class is for linear mode and Falcon3EC class is for electron counting mode. You want to have both. <pre> [camera] class: feicam.Falcon3 zplane: 50 height: 4096 width: 4096 </pre> <pre> [camera] class: feicam.Falcon3EC zplane: 50 height: 4096 width: 4096 </pre> h2. Setup * Set dose rate and acquire References using TUI Reference manager. Don't do it in Leginon. * Set up in fei.cfg (See FEI scope installation instruction) <pre> [camera] FRAME_SUBPATH = leginonframes </pre> In this case, you will need to create a directory called leginonframes on your Falcon image storage server (called OffloadData on your scope PC) with these parent directories <pre> OffloadData\TemScripting\BM-Falcon\leginonframes </pre> This leginonframes directory can then mounted on your permanent storage system and allow rawtransfer.py to rsync the files. h2. Programs to open before Leginon Client: TIA. h2. Testing with pyscope In python command <pre> form pyscope import feicam g = feicam.Falcon3() g.setExposureTime(200) g.getImage() </pre> {{include(pyscope_test_result array)}} h2. Trouble shooting If TEM Advanced Scripting is not setup correctly by the manufacture, a configuration error will appear similar to this: <pre> _ctypes.COMError: (-2147467259, 'Unspecified error.', (u"Could not load Storage Server configuration file: C:\\ProgramData\\FEI||AcquisitionStorageServer||StorageServer.config', u'',u'', 0, None)) </pre>