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Hi All,
I have also been trying to control an IX81 with almost the identical hardware to Bernhard (Prior stage, ZDC etc) using Micromanager. However, I have been unable to get our computer (and Micromanager) to successfully talk with the Olympus control box via the serial port. I suspect the serial port settings. If anyone has done this successfully, can you please let me/us know what settings you used or what has worked best.

Many thanks.
Paul

Assoc. Prof. Paul Rigby
Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation & Analysis (M510)
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley  WA  6007
Australia

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Subject: Re: software to control Olympus IX81 for video microscopy

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On 2011-12-28, at 2:19 PM, Bernhard Kuhn <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Dear All,
> 
> We have an Olympus IX81 with a motorized stage Prior Proscan II, microscopy
> control unit IX2-USB and Olympus Laser- Based Autofocus System (IX2-ZDC).
> 
> The camera is a Hamamatsu EM-CCD C9100-02, controlled with A3472-07.
> 
> We are using this unit for multi-location, multi-time microscopy ~30
> locations for ~150 acquisitions per experiment.
> 
> What software and operating system do people recommend to control this
> setup?
> 
> Is there anyone with a similar setup who can make software recommendations?
> 
> Thank you and Happy New Year,
> 
> Bernhard Kuhn