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Hi Bjron,
At our Centralised Advanced Microscopy and Imaging Facility we had similar issue and we have designed a circuit along with a simple VB program ( windows XP) to solve this problem. The system works as follows:
1. User has to log in with their independent username and password.
2. After logging, a pop window appears to switch ON the Microscope and accessories.
3. Once the user clicks On the ON icon in Pop up window, then only Microscope and other
accessories will get power.
4. After finishing his work user can click on OFF icon in the POP window and Microscope power will
be OFF.
5. User has to logout before leaving the microscope.
Hope this is what you are looking for.
N.R.Chakravarthi
Senior Technical Officer
Instrumentation
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, INIDA.
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From: "George McNamara" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 10:27:11 AM
Subject: Re: How to control microscope through computer login? ... Power USB may help on the power control side
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Hi Bjorn,
Power USB may help on the power control side
http://www.pwrusb.com/featuresandbenefits.html
not clear to me if there is a login scheme - maybe it could be made to
work with the Stratocore PPMS http://stratocore.com/ppms/ suggested
previously.
George
p.s. I have not used Power USB myself.
On 3/15/2012 10:24 AM, Bjorn Tyrberg wrote:
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> We have an interest in tracking use of our microscopes for billing. To do this we
> have tracking software that links to our billing system. The problem is that if the
> user does not log in to the computer, they do not get tracked. Does anybody
> know of a solution where the power to the microscope can be controlled by log
> in to a computer, essentially making scopes unusable unless logged in to
> computer?
>
> Tx
> Bjorn Tyrberg
>
>
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