IL3 User’s Guide
11S-3002B
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1 IL3 Product Overview
1-1 IL3 Product Description
The Fastec IL3 is a high-speed digital camera line with models capable of capturing high resolution
1280 x 1024 pixel images at 500 frames per second and smaller-resolution images at much higher
frame rates. Recording image data at high frame rates makes it possible to play back high quality
video sequences in slow motion, enabling the user a greatly enhanced ability to analyze events that
occur much too quickly for human vision to perceive.
The IL3, with its many modes of operation, including its unique stand alone capabilities, and its high-
speed imaging performance, resolution and sensitivity, make it an excellent choice for many different
applications. For ad hoc testing and troubleshooting, when setup time is precious, the IL3 comes
through as a point and shoot camera. For multi-camera use or where the camera might be set up and
left in more remote applications, its networking and master/slave capabilities come into play.
Fastec Imaging high-speed cameras are
used in hundreds of different industrial
manufacturing sites to analyze motion in
machinery and production line processes.
Reduce jams, speed up line setup and
changeovers, lower scrap and rejected
material costs, and reduce downtime and
maintenance expenses.
Hundreds of universities worldwide use
Fastec cameras for a variety of research
studies. Animal locomotion, mechanical
engineering, flow visualization, combustion
studies, biomechanics & kinesiology,
physics, chemistry, tensile testing, and
more.
High-speed cameras are used to determine
the effects of blasts on structures or
vehicles or determine the actual firing
times of blast holes and the nature of the
rock movement. Delay detonators provide
the timing blasts needed under specific
blasting conditions. Blast holes firing at
incorrect times reduce rock fragmentation,
effect blast movement, and can increase
blast vibrations.
Military customers worldwide use high-speed video to design and test weapons, counter measure
and defensive systems and components. High-speed cameras are key for testing projectiles for
determining ballistics, detonics and fragmentation characteristics; in airborne stores separation; and
in vehicle armor design testing materials and survivability.
