A Long Shot I Know But...............

[Guest Tally]

Hi,

I wonder if anyone can help with this one ?

I have a VCL dome with a VCL controller (I realise that you guys hate VCL stuff but it's all I have lol)

The dome and controller are working without any problems at all.

Now, the camera within the dome is a Sony EVI-331T, it has 12X optical zoom which works fine.

Although, this particular model (EVI-331T) is in itself equiped with a 2X digital zoom which should theoretically give me 24X zoom capabilities.

Currently when I zoom in to maximum zoom on the controller, all I get is the 12X optical zoom and not the 24X zoom.

My question is.......

Should I be expecting the digital zoom to work also ? or is the digital zoom not compatible with the contoller or the VCL hardware currently controlling the camera ?

Maybe this is the dipswitch issue ?

Any help would be very gratefully received

ps, currently dip switches 1-7 are on and sw8 is off.

Regards

Martin

Merry Christmas also and a happy new year

[morph]

What model of vcl dome and controller do you have?

[Guest Tally]

What model of vcl dome and controller do you have?

The contoller is VCTM3VP and controls the dome via twisted pair direct cable connection RS232

I'm not really sure which dome I have though. It looks exactly like a VCL internal microsphere 8"

Although this one is 9" in diameter and is an external one.

I managed to find some info on the internal version which appears to have the same contol board.

Apparently DILSW-8 enables the digital zoom. I have tried this and it's still only optical zoom.

I can only assume that the camera module I have is a EVI-331 and not a 331T, therefore no digital zoom capabilities

Only thing now is trying to figure out how to program this controller

Just cannot find any info on this, maybe it's too old.

Regards

Martin

[Guest Trulloman]

Have you been in the keyboard menu = Lock+9090/camera setup/Zoom = DIG or OPT

[Guest Tally]

Have you been in the keyboard menu = Lock+9090/camera setup/Zoom = DIG or OPT

Thanks Trulloman,

I tried Lock+9090 but it didn't seem to do anything. Should I see an onscreen display or something ?

or is there a button I should press to enablr digital zoom ?

Thanks

oh and a big thanks to you for your knowledge of these contollers. from another post you made I managed to program my controller to automatically tour through my presets

[Guest Trulloman]

Thanks Trulloman,

I tried Lock+9090 but it didn't seem to do anything. Should I see an onscreen display or something ?

or is there a button I should press to enablr digital zoom ?

You should hold down the lock button whilst you enter 9090 then a menu will appear on the screen.

If it won't show a menu try rebooting the contoller and keyboard then try again if still no joy it may be an old dome which you cannot access the menu but I haven't seen one of them for a few years and they tend to be larger than the 8 inch microsphere and didn't have the push & twist action to remove it from the housing.

If you manage to enable the digital zoom, when you zoom in, the lens will stop at the the limit of its optical zoom. Keep the joystick twisted after a short period the digital zoom will start to work.