QHYCCD QHY168C User Manual

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QHY168C302 Use QHY168C in SharpCap1. Connect QHY168C to 12V power supply. Connect QHY168C to your PC with USB3.0 cable.2. Run SharpCap. If the aforementioned software and drivers all have been installed properly,the video image will appear automatically and you will see the frame rate at the lower-leftcorner of the software as shown below3. If you have started the SharpCap before connecting camera to your PC. You can clickmenu->cameras->rescan for cameras to search the camera and check on the camera name(QHY168C in this case).4. To make sure the camera can run properly, the software will start the camera at the lowestspeed, which makes the frame rate much lower than the highest frame rate declared on itswebpage. Now you can try to get the most out of it by changing several settings. First youcan try to set the exposure time to 1ms, then try to reduce the "USB traffic" value. Formodern computer with i7-4 core, it should get the max performance. But please note thatnot all computers can get the best performance due to various reasons such as the CPUloading, the saving-energy mode setting, the mainboard performance and USB3.0 portperformance. Sometimes the display size may also impede obtaining the best performance.So you can try to use the "Zoom" function to reduce the display size to see if it helps.The debayer may take the CPU time and sometimes it will limit the frame rate. You can usethe RAW8 mode and select debayer OFF to get faster.