Tim WilkinsonBefore buying this machine, I had the company send over the installation manual. To be honest, it was only slightly informative given my lack of mandarin, but I did learn that you need 3 USB ports for this machine:
- To control the pick and placing
- For the two vision camera
- For the USB software dongle
Consequently, depending on what Windows PC you end up using, you might need a USB hub to get everything plugged in at the same time.
The USB cable is fairly obvious. When you attach it to your PC it will install a driver which makes it look like a serial port. I guess the actual hardware is serial! You will also get a video-to-usb box with three cables: yellow, red and yellow. Plug the yellow cable into the video cable from the machine (the others are audio inputs which we're not using). Finally, plug the USB dongle (a little purple thing) in too. Below is everything attached to a USB hub:
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