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Video Welding Cameras for Extreme Industrial Lighting

 

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Recent advances in digital cameras have “suddenly” made it possible to provide full simultaneous visibility of welding arc, puddle and the surrounding metal.   The Visible Welding Ultra-1 is a new camera system designed from the ground-up to capture the complete arc welding scene – even the welding tip or robot arm. 

Arc welding has been long considered the most difficult photographic problem because of the tremendous range of light – the arc light can be several million times as bright as the bead and base metal just an inch or two away.  

 

A Welding Scene Requires a Range of Over 1 Million to 1

To Solve this, Visible Welding has Invented the Ultra Dynamic-Range Camera

 

It would take 15,000 Standard Video Cameras or

150 Special High Dynamic-Range Cameras to Capture this Range

 

 

 

To achieve the required dynamic range of 4,000,000 to 1, Visible Welding has combined advanced techniques in optics, electronics and real-time image processing.   None of these disciplines could solve the problem alone – it requires an inter-disciplinary approach.   Of course, an inter-disciplinary approach requires an inter-disciplinary team, and the team behind Visible Welding is without equal – please take a look at our team page.

 


CAMERAS COMING IN  2008

We are in development – cameras will be coming in 2008.   Of course, we’ll be posting more details on this site as we announce specifics.   For now, here are some sneak-previews of what we have planned.

 

Model

Description

MD1-x

Monochrome  TV resolution

CD1-x

Color  TV resolution

ED1-x

Color TV resolution with Digital Video Ethernet output

EM1-x

Color mega-pixel resolution with Digital Video Ethernet

 

 

See Work and the Arc

Stick-Weld by 10-bit Camera and Visible Welding

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Digital Processing with Picture-in-picture

 

Monitor and Record Multiple Cameras at One Station – or Remotely Over the Internet

 

 

 

 

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