Lightning RDTPlus camera provides standard off-the-shelf personal computers with the capabilities of high-speed digital video capture, intuitive camera control software and powerful motion analysis
DRS Data and Imaging Systems, a unit of DRS Technologies, introduced its new Lightning Research, Design and Test (RDTPlus) camera.
This provides an integrated, high-speed imaging system that addresses a wide variety of motion analysis requirements.
Consisting of a small camera head, detachable cable and custom frame grabber board, each Lightning RDTPlus camera can capture 5000 full frames per second at 512x512-pixel resolution.
An extremely fast rate of 100,000 frames per second can be achieved at reduced resolutions.
The Lightning RDTPlus is supplied with Midas software from Xcitex, allowing operators to perform vital motion analysis, to control up to four cameras simultaneously, and to save digital video data in different file formats including AVI, BMP, Jpeg and Tiff.
Typical applications for the camera include, but are not limited to, biomechanics studies, component safety testing, drop/shock/vibration testing, impact analysis and particle image velocimetry (PIV).
